A COUPLE who lost their baby just days after doctors told them the pregnancy was going well are demanding answers from Croydon University Hospital.
Sumeya Mirchie, 29, was six weeks pregnant when she started getting severe stomach pains and her husband Mohsin, also 29, took her to hospital on November 16.
After a scan the couple, from Croydon, were told the baby was fine and the pain was likely to be due to a cyst.
Sumeya was not given any treatment and went home two days later, excited to be expecting her third child.
But, at 5am last Friday morning (November 21), she woke up in excruciating pain.
Mohsin, who works at Homebase, said he took his wife back to accident and emergency where they spent 12 hours before being taken to a ward.
During that time Sumeya had another scan detecting a suspected ectopic pregnancy, meaning the egg had implanted outside of her womb.
If an ectopic pregnancy is left to develop it can be fatal, and Sumeya was taken for keyhole surgery at 9pm that night.
"I could have lost my wife which would have shattered my world," said Mohsin.
An ectopic pregnancy was found and Sumeya had to have a fallopian tube removed and the couple lost their baby.
Sumeya said doctors never found any evidence of a cyst.
"My wife is emotionally scarred," said Mohsin. "She has dreamt about what the baby would look like. She dreamt we were going to have a boy. They got our hopes up and shattered our dreams."
After the surgery the couple repeatedly asked to speak to the surgeon, but at the time of writing, this had not happened.
Mohsin said: "I look at the pain she is going through and there is nothing I can do.
"I want an explanation. We were told the pregnancy was fine.
"Somebody should have picked up the ectopic pregnancy was the reason she was in so much pain."
The couple have been married for ten years and have two children, eight-year-old Zahid and five-year-old Amara.
Sumeya was discharged from hospital on Monday (November 24) and her husband has taken a week off work to care for her.
"I was walking home from dropping the kids at school yesterday and I just started thinking about him," he said.
"I got home and tears started rolling down my face. I've lost my child, with no explanation."
Sumeya, who also lost her first child to a miscarriage, is a sales assistant at Mothercare.
"It's going to be really difficult for her when she goes back to work," said her husband.
Doctors have told the couple they can still have children in the future. But Mohsin is now fearful.
"Emotionally I can't put myself through that again. I don't want to put my wife through an operation again, she's been through too much," he said.
A spokesperson for Croydon Health Services NHS Trust said: "This is very upsetting and we are extremely sorry that the family are unhappy with their care.
"We would ask them to please get in contact with us and we will arrange for them to meet with the surgeon to discuss their concerns."
