Latest update April 7th, 2025 6:08 AM
Another person collapses and dies at CJIA
…family criticizes poor response
“…security didn’t even help us…nothing—nothing…not even a walker, not a tissue, nobody responded! There was no ambulance, no Limacol!” – daughter
Another person has collapsed and died at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA). This time, 59- year- old Sugrim Mohabir of Lot 85 ‘A’ Miss Pheobe, Port Mourant, Corentyne, who was heading to the United States on a Caribbean Airlines flight to do bypass surgery on his heart, collapsed as he was making his way to the check-in counter on Thursday.
Sugrim Mohabir
According to the man’s wife, Kakace Mohabir, her husband, a former boiler operator at the Albion Sugar Estate, had been referred to a USA hospital to undergo surgery. He had also complained of feeling ill that day.
The man’s relatives are less than pleased with the poor response from the CJIA authorities after the man collapsed. One of his daughters said, “Security didn’t even help us…nothing—nothing…not even a walker, not a tissue, nobody responded!” she complained. “There was no ambulance, no Limacol!” she exclaimed.
The family subsequently fetched the man to the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Dispensary nearby, “but the nurse there told us that she cannot do anything and that we must take him to the hospital”. The family had to seek transportation to rush the man to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre where he was pronounced dead-on-arrival.
The family is very upset with the treatment at the CJIA and stated that the airport and Government should be more prepared for these things. Family members questioned the modern airport the CJIA happens to be.
Mohabir leaves to mourn his wife and children, Veresh, Shelly, Romaine, Kamini, Shalini and Brandon.
On April 16 last, Ramkhripaul Jagmohan, 61, was about to travel with his wife, Sheila Jagmohan, to Canada when he collapsed also at the CJIA. He and his wife were about to board Caribbean Airlines flight BW 606 to Toronto, Canada. (Leon Suseran)
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