The Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) yesterday reported that two medical personnel in Brooklyn, New York, have been charged in connection with the death of a Jamaican psychiatric patient in 2008.

The dead woman has been identified as 49-year-old Esmin Green.

According to New York prosecutors, a nurse and an aide at the Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn allowed the Jamaican woman to die on the floor of the psychiatric ward before covering up her death.

It is reported that on June 19, 2008, Green was recorded on a surveillance tape lying face down in the emergency room for nearly an hour, ignored by staffers and security personnel.

Court documents revealed that nursing aide Easton Royal, 53, allegedly wrote in the observation sheet that Green was doing fine at 6 a.m., in the midst of the excruciating 57 minutes the dying woman spent on the floor.

reckless endangerment

Prosecutors said Royal was arrested on Tuesday and charged with reckless endangerment and falsifying business records. She was arraigned at the Brooklyn Criminal Court.

In the meantime, another nurse, whose name was not released, had pleaded guilty last month to similar charges.

According to a previous report by the New York City's Department of Investigation, a nurse, identified only as Gonzalo, admitted to making false entries on Green's progress notes after she died.

Reports from the city's Medical Examiner's Office have indicated that Green died of blood clots after she waited about 24 hours in the hospital's psychiatric waiting room.