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Gurinder Sidhu widower Gurinder Sidhu (right) and his late wife, Ravinder Sidhu. (Gurinder Sidhu) \u2018It baffles me,\u2019 widower says<\/p>\nA widower calls for action as concerns grow over rising Group A sepsis infections and their devastating impact nationwide. Adrian Ghobrial has the latest. <\/p>\n
The deaths of multiple mothers shortly after giving birth in Canadian hospitals has led the City of Brampton, Ont., to pass a unanimous motion calling for sweeping hospital reforms. <\/p>\n
With tears in his eyes, widower Gurinder Sidhu stood before Brampton City Council members on Wednesday outlining his wife\u2019s final moments just days after giving birth to their third child. <\/p>\n
On June 19, 40-year-old Ravinder Sidhu arrived at Mississauga\u2019s Credit Valley Hospital to deliver a healthy baby boy. Their family of five was complete and full of love. <\/p>\n
The father of three says the delivery went fine, but noted that Ravinder had a tear in her vagina that required stitches. <\/p>\n
According to a timeline of events compiled by Sidhu, Ravinder broke out in a fever and violent shakes at around 11:15 a.m. For a brief period, Sidhu says, Ravinder had trouble speaking.<\/p>\n
The infection severely damaged his wife\u2019s uterus and spread down to her leg, Sidhu said. <\/p>\n
\u201cFor four days she struggled. For two of those days, she fought on her own with no help from the doctors in the hospital, she was just given Tylenol and Advil,\u201d recounted a distraught Sidhu. <\/p>\n
Sidhu said his wife would did not receive any antibiotics for nearly 30 hours after she started displaying symptoms.<\/p>\n
Her cause of death is listed as a Group A strep\/sepsis infection. Sidhu is accusing Credit Valley Hospital staff of gross negligence. <\/p>\n
Gurinder Sidhu widower Gurinder Sidhu (right) and his late wife, Ravinder Sidhu. (Gurinder Sidhu) \u2018It baffles me,\u2019 widower says<\/p>\n
Sadly, the Sidhu family isn\u2019t alone. On Jan. 19, Celina Klinger Evans died in a London, Ont., hospital two days after giving birth. She too was a mother of three, and once again, a Group A sepsis infection was listed as the cause of death. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt baffles me that in 2025, a 29-year-old woman can die from an infection from childbirth,\u201d widower William Evans said this past winter. <\/p>\n
A motion for change<\/p>\n
Since his wife\u2019s tragic postpartum passing, Sidhu has been on a mission to ensure no family has to endure what his is currently living through. <\/p>\n
He launched an online petition demanding sepsis screening and early prevention reform, which has amassed more than 15,000 signatures.<\/p>\n
Sidhu has also banged on the doors of politicians, which led him to Brampton City Council. That\u2019s where Coun. Navjit Kaur Brar tabled a motion on Wednesday calling for \u201cimplementation of standardized sepsis screening and escalation protocols across all health-care settings,\u201d as well as \u201cmandatory training for early identification, rapid intervention, and escalation for all clinical staff.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a cry for change and this motion will be that change,\u201d the councillor said, adding that she truly believes \u201cwe can prevent deaths.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cEarly intervention is so important, and it can help us make important progress\u201d she added. <\/p>\n
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GURINDER SIDHU Ravinder Sidhu died at the age of 40 after giving birth to a third healthy child on June 19. (Gurinder Sidhu) <\/p>\n
Kaur Brar\u2019s motion, which passed unanimously at Brampton City Council, calls for immediate action from Ontario\u2019s Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n
In an email to CTV News, the ministry said, \u201cAs we continue to work to enhance patient safety standards and improve health outcomes across the province, we expect every hospital to uphold the highest standard of patient care and to comply with requirements under the Public Hospitals Act (PHA) relating to the response and review of critical incidents to ensure they never happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n
The ministry added that it expects hospitals to \u201cdisclose the findings from this review to the impacted patients, or their family.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown said he hopes that the cries of families like the Sidhus are heard across the country. <\/p>\n
\u201cA tragedy at Credit Valley Hospital might not be heard in the noise of government. The hope is that we\u2019re going to build awareness, that we\u2019re going to insert this tragedy into the conversation and fix this gap in our health-care system,\u201d he said. \u201cHopefully other cities are going to replicate Brampton\u2019s motion and we\u2019re going to hear a chorus of calls to fix what is a hole in our health-care system.\u201d <\/p>\n
For Sidhu, he\u2019s sharing his wife\u2019s tragic story in hopes that others don\u2019t have to walk in his and his children\u2019s shoes. <\/p>\n
He has one simple plea for provincial governments across Canada: \u201cMake this change now, so we can prevent these future deaths that are totally preventable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A widower calls for action as concerns grow over rising Group A sepsis infections and their devastating impact…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[712,49,48,84,392],"class_list":{"0":"post-305587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}