APPROXIMATELY two months after the completion of the autopsy for Jodian Fearon, the first-time mother who died after being denied access to health care at several hospitals in April, her family is yet to receive a copy of the report.
In the meantime, the family's attorney Isat Buchanan, in a letter to Dr Neblett, a copy of which the Observer has obtained, said that the family would revert to the Supreme Court for assistance in obtaining the report if a copy was not provided soon.
“We hereby request that the family be supplied with a copy of the final report of the autopsy conducted by you, as a death certificate has not been issued, caused by your extended delay in this matter,” the attorney said.
In a previous letter addressed to Dr Mowatt, executive director at the Institute of Forensic Science and Legal Medicine, dated June 12, 2020, Dr Ford also requested a copy of the autopsy report.
“There is one lesson to be learnt from the post-mortem of George Floyd in the United States, there may be other factors pertaining to the traumatic death of an individual and I have already spoken to them, including the unforgivable knowledge that she died on the ground of the intensive care unit and this may also be consequential,” Ford's letter, a copy of which was provided to the Observer, read.
