     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: THE DECEASED HAD A HISTORY OF FEVER, DIARRHEA AND VOMITING IN JUNE 1996 IN HAITI.  HER MOTHER GAVE HER TYLENOL, ONE TEASPOON A DAY FOR THREE DAYS.  FOUR DAYS LATER SHE WAS TAKEN TO A HOSPITAL IN HAITI FOR NOT URINATING.  SHE WAS THEN TRANSPORTED TO THE UNITED STATES FOR FURTHER TREATMENT WHEN SHE WENT INTO CARDIAC ARREST.  SHE WAS DIVERTED TO BROWARD GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER AND DIAGNOSED WITH SEVERE METABOLIC ACIDOSIS AND RENAL FAILURE, BUT SHE WAS TRANSFERED TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL THE SAME DAY.
     THE DECEASED WAS INTUBATED EN ROUTE.  SHE ARRIVED AT JMH LETHARGIC, STARING OFF IN SPACE AND ONLY RESPONSIVE TO PAIN.  A CT SCAN REVEALED AN INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE WITH CEREBRAL EDEMA.  SHE WAS FURTHER DIAGNOSED WITH TOXIC ENCEPHALOPATHY AND HER PROGNOSIS WAS POOR.  SHE FURTHER DETERIORATED AND DEVELOPED RESPIRATORY FAILURE AND DIED ON AUG. 3, 1996 AT 12:10 PM. 

     *PER THE JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL CHART, THE DECEASED IS TO BE RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC INTERMENT PROGRAM.* 
