Christine Fields, who recently received her college degree in criminal justice, leaves behind her 3-month-old son, a 3 year old and a 5 year old.
The New York City Health Department has released a document uncovering the highly sought-after details leading to last year’s death of a 30-year-old mother, the New York Times reported.
Christine Fields was a mother of three. She died last November at Woodhull Medical Center in the Bedford–Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, shortly after going into labor. When doctors performed a last-minute cesarean section on Fields due to the baby’s dropping heart rate, everything went seemingly well. The baby was born hours later. Then, events turned tragic when Fields died. The incident was shrouded in mystery as the hospital did not offer any medical records to provide a reason for Fields’ death. Seeking answers, the Bed-Study community rallied in Fields’ name.
According to The New York Times, the medical examiner’s office had revealed that Fields bled to death and ruled the manner of death as a complication. A new document, provided to the news outlet, reported a miscommunication between members of the surgical team who conducted the C-section. The surgeons did not accurately note the complications that had arisen during surgery. The report pointed out complications such as a “uterine arterial injury,” which “resulted in maternal death.”