The family of an Army wife and mother of three is poised to receive $9.5 million as part of a settlement in a medical malpractice lawsuit.
The legal action stems from a gastric bypass surgery the 31-year-old woman underwent at Tripler Army Medical Center in November 2020, following childbirth.
The lawsuit contends that an error occurred during the initial surgery, with surgeons reattaching her small intestines backward, resulting in a subsequent hernia. Three days later, emergency surgery was required to address the hernia, during which anesthetists allegedly damaged the woman's lungs, leading to blood clots.
Doctors treated the clots with medication, inadvertently causing substantial micro-hemorrhages in her brain. Over the subsequent six weeks, her health deteriorated, ultimately culminating in sepsis, and she passed away on December 16, 2020.
The $9.5 million settlement aims to provide redress for the alleged medical lapses contributing to this tragic sequence of events.
