“We want answers,” said lawyer Aric Jackson Kingne Wekouo. “It is unacceptable that someone in a hospital cry for help.”
The spokesperson for Mireille Ndjomouo’s family says it is too early to know whether racism, negligence or error played a role in the death of the 44-year-old Cameroonian refugee and mother of three who begged, in a heart-wrenching video made from from a Longueuil hospital bed, to be transferred to another institution.
“But we want answers,” Montreal lawyer Aric Jackson Kingne Wekouo said on Sunday. “We want to know what happened, why she was not transferred when she asked to be transferred.”
Ndjomouo entered Charles-Le Moyne Hospital on March 1 complaining of hip pain. She was placed in isolation because there was a concern that she had tuberculosis. She said in the video that was injected with penicillin even though staff knew “full well that I am allergic.”
Although “it would be premature to say her death was linked to the medication, Mireille wasn’t getting answers,” said Kingne Wekouo. “Every doctor who came in said something different. She would call her sister and just cry.”
In the video, Ndjomouo’s face is swollen and her breathing laboured; she said her belly was swollen, she was in great pain and had a head-to-toe rash.
“It is as if they are killing me bit by bit,” she said, imploring members of the Cameroonian community to share the video on social media. “I am asking the doctor to transfer me to another hospital, where I would be better followed, but he doesn’t want to.”
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