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Death of Guyanese nurse… Relatives want body brought home
After being provided with a fraction of clarity into the present condition of her daughter, Morlyn Scipio is now out to establish confirmation of the information received and is hopeful that her many questions of the circumstances under which the woman passed away will be answered.
Thirty-seven year-old Guyanese nurse, Lucinda Abiola Solomon-Lee, who had been residing for the past four years in India, was reported by her Nigerian husband of one year as having died on Thursday, July 4. The man, identified as Austine Molar, reportedly contacted Solomon-Lee’s relatives, by means of telephone three days after her passing, to inform them that she had died.
Lucinda Solomon-Lee
This, family members noted, had caused them to become suspicious of the Nigerian, added to the fact that he had contacted the woman’s father in St. Maarten some three weeks ago, demanding money without giving a valid reason.
Family members had initially believed that Solomon-Lee was still alive and that she was somehow being held at ransom. However, information most recently received through the Indian High Commission in Guyana and other sources suggests that the woman has indeed died.
Based on a Facebook message that was sent by Molar to the nurse’s sister on Monday, the First Secretary of the Indian High Commission, Tirath Singh, was able to contact the hospital at which the nurse reportedly passed.
According to the message, the woman had been hospitalised two months prior to her death to undergo an ovarian surgery. Within the message, Molar identified three hospitals in India, one of the three, SAFI hospital, where she underwent the surgery and another, NAIR hospital, where she died.
Following a search that was conducted by the First Secretary of the Indian High Commission, contact was made with the NAIR hospital.
During a conversation between the Secretary and the staff on duty at the hospital, it was revealed that a woman who had been listed as Lucinda Aisting Nichols, who had been taken to the facility by four Nigerians, died at 12 a.m. on July 5.
Further, the staff disclosed that a post mortem has reportedly already been conducted; however he was not authorized to reveal what had been determined as the cause of death. The body is currently being kept in the hospital’s mortuary.
Even as further insight has been revealed into the matter, family members are not satisfied with just the fragments of information that they have received thus far.
According to Scipio, they want to “see the body, cry, and then we will be satisfied”.
The family is currently exploring the possibilities of having the body being brought back to Guyana, an operation which is premised to cost in excess of GYD$2 M.
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