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Pensioner falls to death from verandah
A 69-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the Georgetown Public Hospital where she was rushed around 08:00hrs on Saturday, minutes after she fell from the verandah of her Nandy Park, East Bank Demerara home.
Dead: Sybil Ramrattan
Sybil Ramrattan reportedly fell over the rail of her verandah, landing some 13 feet on the muddy ground below.
Her daughter, Margaret told Kaieteur News that she had just left her mother on the verandah eating fried fish and plantains when the incident occurred.
“I was cutting her nails and then my son gave her plantains and fried fish with water to eat and they left and gone to buy DVDs so it was me and her alone,” the disturbed daughter claimed.
She explained that she left her mother on the verandah, to get some “fresh air since she troubling with high blood pressure, sugar and cholesterol while I attended to some kitchen chores.”
“I was making tea and I asked her if she want some hot tea and she say ‘yes’ so I was going to give her the tea when I hear a loud noise.”
The highly distressed daughter said that she rushed to the verandah and noticed a broken glass which her mother was using to drink water.
“I didn’t think anything because I thought she had gone to the washroom and the cup fall down. But is when I checked the house and didn’t see her then I check the verandah.”
The daughter claimed that she got the biggest shock in her life when she stood on the verandah and witnessed her mother lying motionless on the ground below.
The verandah from which the 69-year-old woman fell.
“I run and I cuddle her up and I start screaming. Then one of the tenants came and help me lift her on the step.”
Ramrattan was then rushed to the GPHC, where she later succumbed.
“When I went there my mother was talking and she told me her head was hurting but when dem doctors start giving her drips and saline her belly and hands swell fat, fat and I see they tie her mouth up but I don’t know why.”
She was later told that her mother was dead.
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