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Drug agent dies hours after discharge from hospital
Maxwell Bamfield, a senior drug enforcement agent attached to the Guyana Revenue Authority, died at his home hours after he was discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
According to relatives, the 60-year-old man was taken to the hospital on Tuesday evening and discharged at about 03:00hrs yesterday. He was discovered dead at 14:10hrs that same day.
This newspaper understands that Bamfield, after his release from the hospital, was taken to his wife’s (Joylyn Suzanne Bamfield) home in Blue Saki Drive, Festival City, where she tended to him as he recuperated.
A close relative told this newspaper that his wife had made soup for him earlier in the day and after a while he asked for some solid food.
The man died while she was preparing the meal.
Family members who gathered at the home yesterday were overcome with grief but expressed dissatisfaction at the treatment dispensed by the Georgetown Public Hospital. One member of the family, who was with him at the hospital, said that the man was prescribed tablets without a proper examination. “She did not even put a stethoscope to his chest and done prescribe tablets.”
The family members were adamant that more should have been done at the hospital given that he was a man who served the nation for more than four decades, having served as a member of the Guyana Defence Force and the GRA.
This newspaper understands that the man was subsequently examined by a doctor and was given some more medication.
He was kept for a while under observation and then sent home, a move that was questioned by the family given that the man’s blood pressure was said to be extremely low.
Bamfield leaves to mourn his wife of just over a month. He got married on May 31 after a 20-year relationship and four children.
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