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Agri Minister collapses, rushed to hospital
Agriculture Minister, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, was discharged last night from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) having being rushed there earlier in the day, after reportedly collapsing in his office.
According to sources, the 66-year-old Minister was immediately taken to the hospital’s Accident and Emergency Unit before being transferred to the Caribbean Heart Institute (CHI), located in the same compound.
Dr. Leslie Ramsammy
GPHC in a statement had said that the Minister’s condition was being “closely monitored.”
A hospital source subsequently stated that Minister Ramsammy had suffered syncope (fainting). The source added that he also had an arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat) which could have caused the condition.
The former Minister of Health underwent a triple heart-bypass surgery several years ago.
One of the Minister’s staffers had refuted reports that Dr. Ramsammy had collapsed. According to the employee, the Minister was dizzy, hence they insisted on taking him to the hospital for a checkup.
“He is okay. He was just a bit dizzy. He wanted to go home and rest, but we insisted on bringing him here for a checkup.”
GPHC issued a statement late last night indicating that the Minister had been released from the institution.
Dr. Ramsammy’s case followed closely to that of Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon who had to be admitted after he suffered a fall.
After a one-week stay in hospital, he (Luncheon) was discharged and then had to be re-admitted. On the second occasion he was diagnosed with clots in the region of the heart. He underwent surgery to remove a large clot near his heart. The condition was described as a pulmonary embolism.
A source at Office of the President later said that Dr. Luncheon was lucky to be alive. The source said that the Cabinet Secretary had been in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital when he showed signs akin to developing a heart attack.
Immediately he was transferred to the Caribbean Heart Institute where cardiologist Dr. Gary Stephens undertook an emergency intervention procedure.
He inserted a series of filters to prevent the clots from going to the heart and the lungs. Had this happened the Cabinet Secretary would have certainly died, the source said.
It was later reported that Dr. Gary Stephens, head of the CHI, was at the right place at the right time.
Dr. Luncheon had stated that “Big Brother” was watching over him and caused him to be alive. Indeed, many people died after they had developed a single clot in the blood stream.
Doctors familiar with the condition and the procedure that Dr. Luncheon underwent said that pulmonary embolism could be a hereditary condition.
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