The family of beekeeper Michael Christopher Phillips, has denied ever requesting that the badly injured man be taken off life support at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
In a statement issued yesterday, a relative said that he was “unaware of any such request made to the GPHC and I believe this information to be erroneous.”
The relative stated that he was the primary contact between the hospital authorities and the rest of the family, most of whom reside overseas.
According to the relative, Phillips’ children and surviving siblings “are very concerned that person or persons unknown, made a decision to pull the plug on their father/brother without consulting them. This report has therefore caused much real pain and anguish to Chris’ family.”
The relative was referring to a Kaieteur News article, in which a source had informed this newspaper that relatives had requested that Phillips be taken off a life support machine.
Phillips, 45, was critically injured on May 21, last, after falling off a scaffold while removing a hive of bees from a roof at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport.
He was rushed to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre with head injuries and a broken left leg, but was later transferred to the GPHC, where he eventually succumbed.
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