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Family forces exhumation of taxi driver’s body
The body that was published in the Kaieteur News on Thursday last as unidentified and later identified as that of taxi driver and former policeman Ivor Gomes, 41, of 21-22 Asylum Street New Amsterdam, was exhumed yesterday at the request of the family.
Gomes’s body was buried before it could have been identified, because it had started to decay.
Ivor Gomes
When it was found it was taken to the New Modern multimillion dollar state of the art New Amsterdam hospital mortuary which malfunctioned.
A post mortem was subsequently performed by Dr Nehaul Singh at the Stanleytown cemetery. It gave the cause of death as haemorrhage of the brain and cirrhosis of the liver.
However, the family is livid with the police and the hospital authorities for the way the situation was handled ending in Gomes’s unceremoniously burial.
The relatives said that they are not happy with how the entire scenario was played out. The police are blaming the hospital while they hospital authorities are saying they are not responsible.
Gomes, it was alleged, had collapsed and died at Topo/Albion in Corentyne on September 12, last, around 14:00 hrs. The man was seen walking on a dam in the area when he suddenly collapsed.
The body was picked up and taken to the New Amsterdam Hospital mortuary.
The police, according to information, had taken a ‘fresh body’ to the mortuary and are querying the decomposition.
They told relatives that they had to bury the body after they were informed that the body had started to decay.
However, the Hospital authorities are claiming that the body only reached the mortuary on Tuesday.
The family members say that they are confused at the moment because the police and the hospital authorities are saying different things. They plan to do their own investigations and seek legal advice.
The New Amsterdam Hospital, they claim, is not telling the truth. They are also blasting the police for being sloppy.
The relatives are querying why the police did not publish the man’s photograph earlier, so that he could have been identified.
Gomes, who once operated a taxi service with his father from their home, was given a proper burial after the post mortem and later in the afternoon a memorial service was held at his home.
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