08/31/2025
Posted • 💔 What should have been a time of celebration became an unimaginable loss for Brampton mother, physiotherapist, and business owner Ravinder Kaur Sidhu. After giving birth to a healthy baby boy at Credit Valley Hospital, she developed clear signs of sepsis. Despite her family’s repeated concerns, antibiotics weren’t given for more than 24 hours. Just days later, she died of septic shock.
Her family is now demanding urgent action, including province-wide sepsis protocols and stronger safeguards in birthing units, so that no other parent faces preventable tragedy.
This kind of situation is something we’ve seen before in Canada. “We have a broken system riddled with institutional racism and it needs to end in my lifetime.”- Stefanie Antunes, President of Doula School
Ravinder’s story is a heartbreaking reminder of how systemic failures in healthcare can cost lives. Her family and community have created a petition on change.org where you can help support the push for changes in our medical systems. There is a link in our bio.
