Maternal and infant death - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 14 Jun 2021 04:34:00 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Maternal and infant death - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Auckland childbirth tragedy: Mum, baby die - grieving husband begs for investigation https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/06/14/auckland-childbirth-tragedy/ Mon, 14 Jun 2021 07:52:29 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=137208 A father who lost his wife during childbirth and their newborn daughter four days later is pleading for an investigation into their sudden deaths. Speaking exclusively to the Weekend Herald, Charitha Meepegama said his wife Nilakshani (Nishi) Silva underwent an emergency C-section in an ambulance last Saturday morning and died a short time later. The Read more

Auckland childbirth tragedy: Mum, baby die - grieving husband begs for investigation... Read more]]> A father who lost his wife during childbirth and their newborn daughter four days later is pleading for an investigation into their sudden deaths.

Speaking exclusively to the Weekend Herald, Charitha Meepegama said his wife Nilakshani (Nishi) Silva underwent an emergency C-section in an ambulance last Saturday morning and died a short time later.

The couple's baby daughter, Eliana, was rushed to Auckland Hospital but her grieving father made the agonising decision to switch off life support four days later. The pair will be buried together today.

"I want some answers," Meepegama said. Read more

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