(SAD)Mother describes baby's final hours...!!

A devastated mother wept as she described the moment her premature baby died hours after being removed from a ventilator.

He was resuscitated after birth and put on a ventilator on the hospital's neonatal ward, where doctors believed he was "doing well".

Rohan was then moved to St Michael's Hospital in Bristol - in the same trust as Bristol Children's Hospital - to be assessed for an operation to close a heart duct which was open.

But just 24 hours after arriving, the decision was made to remove Rohan from the ventilator and his condition deteriorated rapidly.

He was 36 days old when he died.

Mother Bronwyn told an inquest a doctor later apologised to her and husband Alex after their son was removed from the machine and given breathing mask treatment Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) instead.

Practising vet Mrs Rhodes said: "During the time Vel (Dr Velmurugan Ramalingam) was working on Rohan he apologised repeatedly.

"He said: 'Don't worry, we will take care of him'.

"I was repeatedly crying and shaking my head: 'But you haven't. You haven't taken care of my baby. He came here in good health for a procedure'.

"Vel kept saying he was so sorry."

She added: "There were other babies being ignored while..." before being stopped from continuing by the coroner.

Flax Bourton Coroner's Court heard Mrs Rhodes, of Narbeth, Pembrokeshire, was admitted to Withybush Hospital in west Wales on August 26, 2012.

She was just 25 weeks pregnant when Rohan was born in Singleton Hospital's Special Care Baby Unit the following day.

Dr Geraint Morris, a consultant paediatrician on the unit, described Rohan as being "extremely premature" and requiring ventilation.

Mrs Rhodes said: "The medical team tried to wean him off the ventilator from day one.

"He was a very healthy baby considering. He digested his food and consistently put on weight and grew. He was a very active baby."

The consultants believed it was impossible to wean Rohan off the ventilator any further, Mrs Rhodes said.

A medical team from Singleton transferred Rohan to St Michael's Hospital, where he was to be assessed for surgery on his open heart duct.

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