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Siblings remain hospitalised

Apr 11, 2010 News

Child’s sudden death…

As the parents of six year-old Devi Mangal anxiously await the post mortem examination, their two other children remain hospitalised.
Yesterday, the children’s father, Carl Edwards, said that at no time was he or his wife, Lilamattie Ramdeen, taken into police custody. This was further supported by the Guyana Police Force through a statement.
According to the Police statement, following the report of the child’s death, the parents were invited to the Central Police Station where they were made to give statements. Both Edwards and Ramdeen were released.
The statement continued that the police were informed that the children, including the one who perished, were admitted to the hospital suffering from severe dehydration and gastroenteritis.
Edwards told Kaieteur News yesterday that the other two children are showing major signs of improvement but his wife is now showing similar symptoms as her children.
He added that his wife had a typhoid test done but it came back negative. Edwards further related that several other tests were done on the two other children and they are awaiting the results.
On Wednesday last, six-year-old Locaber Primary School student, Devi Mangal, died and her two other siblings, Ajay, 9, and Deviskar Mangal, 7, were hospitalised.
The children’s mother, Lilamattie Ramdeen, called ‘Chiney girl’ of 10 Locaber, West Canje, Berbice, and her one-year-old baby, Lisa Edwards, were also hospitalised. They have since been discharged.
Ramdeen and the children live with her husband, Carl Edwards.
Ramdeen’s three older children are from a previous relationship.
Speaking with Kaieteur News, the woman said that the children were not ill and her daughter’s death and the other children’s sickness remain a mystery to her.
The woman said that on Easter Monday the children were all well and flew their kites at the Locaber playfield.
On Tuesday she, her daughter, Devi, her baby and husband Carl Edwards went to Chesney to enquire about the water supply from Guywa.
The woman said that she bought a drink and shared it with the baby and her daughter. Later in the day she bought two red rolls (salaras) and two pine tarts from a roadside vendor in front of the market.
She said that around the same time her daughter started to complain of feeling unwell and she gave her some Panadol Syrup. The time was around 19:30 hours.
She said that she gave her some green tea and a pine tart.
The woman recounted that around 01:30 hrs on Wednesday, her daughter started to vomit and complain of feeling pains about her body. Some five hours later, about 6:30 hrs, the situation worsened; the girl started to vomit more frequently and was apparently in severe pain.
The woman’s husband said that he was subsequently informed that his neighbour had sprayed their yard with a weedicide.
He said some sections of his yard got the poisonous substance.
“Like they spray they yard and some get on the front bed with bagie but we pick from another bed fuh cook,” Edwards said.
However, the neighbour has been quoted as denying spraying the yard or any other place during this period.

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