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Garrick

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Family sues New York hospital over death of Jamaican

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The family of a Jamaican woman who died after being left unattended on the floor of the psychiatric ward at Kings County Hospital Centre (KCHC) in Brooklyn has slapped the public-run hospital and the City of New York with a US$25-million (J$1.8 billion) lawsuit.

Tecia Harrison, the eldest child of the deceased, Esmin Green, filed the wrongful death notice yesterday. She is being represented by prominent civil rights attorney Sandford 'Sandy' Rubenstein, a highly regarded figure in New York's Caribbean immigrant community.

Rubenstein has been at the forefront of major personal injury and civil-rights lawsuits in the city, where he sprang to prominence alongside the late Johnie Cochran as the legal counsel for Abner Louima, the Haitian immigrant who was sodomised by New York City police personnel in 1997.

He recently represented the victims in the Sean Bell-lawsuit against the police department after Bell was shot dead by the police on his wedding day in 2006.

In an interview at his downtown Brooklyn law office yesterday, Rubenstein said what was important to Green's family was getting justice for their loved one.

Acts of neglect

"What this means is whoever was responsible for the acts of neglect, as well as the acts of cover-up, should be held criminally liable under our system of justice," he said. "What's important is that they get change, so that what happened to their mom never happens again to anyone else."

He said while it had taken Green's tragic death to bring some much-needed reform at Kings County, this was only the beginning.

The family's lawsuit comes even as the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office and the City Department of Investigations continue their probes into allegations that hospital staffers changed Esmin Green's medical chart after she died. The medical record indicates that the sick woman was sitting quietly in the waiting room at 6:20 a.m. on June 19, the day she died. The security camera recording activities in the waiting room contradicted this claim, showing that Green had long fallen off her chair and was still lying on the floor at 6:20 a.m., finally receiving attention some-20 minutes later.

"It's clear from the timeline that exists that records were falsified with regard to what happened," Rubenstein noted.

Harrison, Green's 31-year-old daughter, at first said she would not view the tape showing her mother's final moments, but yesterday looked at snippets of it at her lawyer's office.

"I had to see what my mother went through, although I couldn't face all of it," she told The Gleaner.

"It was heartbreaking, horrifying. A piece of me died when I saw my mother fall on the floor," she added.

Green's body has been flown home to Jamaica, where the funeral will take place on Sunday at Point Hill, St Catherine.

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STUWY77

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Date: 10:04 07/09 2008

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that was expected __________________

tob2190

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Date: 12:50 07/09 2008

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f@.k them up __________________ D-Block Family

Chabee

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Date: 13:32 07/09 2008

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that was a must, wonder a how much $$$$$$ __________________

Garrick

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Date: 14:01 07/09 2008

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Jah kno still as bad as thing be....mi nuh think she woulda die if she was at one of our Jamaican hospitals. __________________

Dj Moet

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Date: 14:03 07/09 2008

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di worse lo*lcate hospital inna nyc dem fi sue dem fi get all 300 mil from dem rawse __________________ ALLIANCE RUN DI WORLD EVEN DEM MUMA AND DEM GIRLLLLL BULLETTT !!!