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Okay, so Dadeland was willing to sell you an abortion whether you were pregnant or not. Okay, so Dadeland would rush a single doctor through as many as 60 abortions in a single day. That doesn't mean they'd necessarily do a botch job, did it?
Chatoor Bisal Singh did an abortion on Ellen Lorena Williams On March 2, 1985. On March 4, Ellen returned, doubled over and rocking back and forth in pain. Betty Eason gave her some tea, then called Singh, who arrived four hours later. Singh examined Ellen, then turned her over to Nabil Ghali, who performed a second D&C and sent Ellen home with a bottle of antibiotics. On March 5, Ellen was rushed by ambulance to Coral Reef Hospital, where she was rushed into surgery. She died in the intensive care unit on March 6. The autopsy revealed that she had uterine and bowel perforations, causing the peritonitis that killed her.
Singh told the Miami Herald that he didn't usually work at Dadeland, but was "strapped for cash" and agreed to fill in for Robert Kast while he was away. Singh described himself as "not an abortionist, just an honest, easygoing guy looking for something temporary. After Ellen's death, Singh quit working at Dadeland, saying, "It was a bad month." It certainly was: the same day he'd performed the first abortion on Ellen Williams, Singh also did an abortion on a woman identified as "Patricia W.," who afterward hemorrhaged and passed a portion of her fetus, which Singh had failed to remove. When she returned with it to the clinic, staff told her it was "a blood clot," but a hospital later verified that it was a 16-week fetal head.
Ellen and Patricia weren't the first women to have botched abortions at Dadeland. Nor where they the last. Dadeland's problems went back at least as early as 1981, and they continued long after Ellen Williams was dead and buried.
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