A FAMILY wants to know who is responsible for botching up prisoner Darryl Vincent’s surgery.

Vincent underwent an emergency operation for an inflamed appendix at the Port of Spain General Hospital last month.

Relatives said raw faeces were flowing from an incision in Vincent’s abdomen.

“He could not pass stool or urine on his own after the surgery,” a relative told TnT Mirror.

Vincent, of Lower Hillside, San Fernando, is on Remand Yard at the Golden Grove, Arouca, Prison.

He was committed to stand trial at the San Fernando High Court on charges of possession of a firearm and armed robbery, and awarded bail in the sum of $120,000.

Relatives said Vincent took in with pain on May 31 at the prison.

“He was taken to hospital and admitted to Ward 24.

“The prison authorities failed to inform Vincent’s relatives of his predicament.

“It was a guard at the hospital who called and told us he was on the ward,” a relative disclosed.

The relative said Vincent had surgery the following day and they were shocked when they visited him.

“The whole ward was smelling stink of sh*t.

“Faeces was actually oozing from the bandage of the surgical cut.

“I asked the nurses to clean him.

“But they said they could not clean him since the doctor did not give them any directive to do so,” the relative said.

Vincent’s relative said she could not accept the condition she saw him in.

She said she went to speak with a doctor.

“The doctor told me he believed the stitches did not hold and they would have to do another surgery to correct the problem.

“Nothing was done but Vincent was discharged and sent back to prison last June 12.

“The prison refused to keep Vincent in such a condition and sent him back to the hospital on June 13.

“They admitted him to Ward 21.

“In that ward, the doctors were not attending to him since they claimed he was not their patient.

“The nurses referred to the ward as the ‘hog pen’.

“I raised the matter and made a set of noise and they sent him back to Ward 24 where he is now.

“The amount of faeces exiting the cut has since decreased.

“But it is still there while nothing was done.

“The doctors are looking on to see whether the leakage would stop or if they would have to do another surgery.”

Relatives questioned what went wrong with Vincent’s surgery.

“We want answers from Health Minister John Rahael.

“What did the doctors cut to cause faeces to flow from a cut?

“Why didn’t the prison inform us of Vincent’s condition?

“We need answers,” a close relative of Vincent told Mirror.