BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, Brooklyn (PIX11) — Today marks one year since a Brooklyn woman tragically passed away shortly after giving birth at NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull last November.
Loved ones of Christine Fields held a somber vigil outside the hospital Wednesday. Friends and family stood side by side holding flowers and candles, and embracing one another as they honored a life gone too soon. Fields’ mother, Denene Witherspoon, has been grappling with the profound loss of her daughter.
“Sad, depressing — everything,” said Witherspoon. “I got a hole in my heart that’ll never be filled. My life will never be the same again. I miss my daughter so much.”
As loved ones mourn the void left in their lives, they release balloons in Fields’ remembrance. The family alleges the death of 30-year-old Fields was due to hospital staff not properly performing an emergency c-section and monitoring her condition after the surgery. A doctor at the hospital has since been fired following an investigation into maternal and infant deaths at the city-run hospital.