Setting up of an Epilepsy Foundation

Nov 03, 2012 Letters

Dear Editor,
It was very disturbing to read about the death of eleven-year-old Vikaash Singh (Boy, 11, found dead in drain – KN, Nov 2), apparently by drowning after a seizure attack. To the grieving parents, relatives and friends I express my deepest condolences.
Little Vikaash’s tragic death made me go the Website of the Ministry of Labour and Human Services for an email address, but there was none that I could find. So I ask you to allow me to indulge me on the matter of an application that was submitted some while ago to the relevant department of that Ministry, for the registration of an Epilepsy Foundation of Guyana under the Friendly Societies’ Act.
A small group of us, including Rev. Maureen Massiah, Rev. Ralph Bactowar, Mr. Daam Barker and Dr. David Singh, working under the aegis of the Compassion, Justice and Peace Committee of the Guyana Presbyterian Church, had done quite a lot of work in preparing the Registration application document, but to date there has been no response from the Ministry.
I must mention as well that we had received encouragement, suggestions and input from Dr. Laura Mantoan of the Institute of Neurology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, University College of London, in preparing our registration application.
Being in England at this time, I am now in a position to pursue the setting up of the Foundation with Dr. Mantoan, but the process will benefit significantly from feedback about the Registration of the proposed Foundation.
I do look forward to a response from the relevant officer of the Ministry, either in this medium or better at my email address: thomas.singh@uog.edu.gy.
Thomas B. Singh
Lecturer
Dept. of Economics, University of Guyana
& Visiting Commomwealth Fellow,
University of Kent

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