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Death in India…Post Mortem reveals Guyanese died of cancer of the uterus
More than two weeks after she was informed of the death of her daughter in India, Morlyn Scipio, the mother of the deceased, has been provided with answers to her many questions, although most are unwelcomed.
The death of 37-year-old Guyanese nurse, Lucinda Abiola Solomon-Lee, was reported to members of her immediate family via telephone on July 7 by her Nigerian husband, three days after she died.
Lucinda Solomon-Lee while in India
The woman’s mother had stated that although she had asked repeatedly what had caused her daughter’s death, the man did not respond.
In a subsequent Facebook message to the nurse’s sister, however, the man relayed all the circumstances surrounding the death of his Guyanese wife.
He stated that the nurse had been hospitalised two months prior to her death to undergo an ovarian surgery. In the message the Nigerian identified three hospitals in Indian where the woman reportedly received medical attention; including SAFI hospital, where she underwent the surgery, and NAIR hospital where she passed.
Having received some amount of clarity from the message and a lead into a hopeful investigation, the nurse’s mother, Scipio, solicited assistance through the Indian High Commission in Georgetown.
Contact was made to the NAIR hospital where it was revealed by a staff on duty that a woman fitting the description of Solomon-Lee and bearing a similar name had died at the facility on July 5. The staff also disclosed that the woman had been taken to the hospital by four Nigerians.
The body was reportedly still being held in the facility’s mortuary although a post mortem examination had already been conducted.
Still not convinced that the body being held in cold storage at the NAIR hospital was her daughter’s, Scipio sought all means that were accessible to her in order to be provided with more details; specifically the findings of the post mortem and a picture of the body in order to establish confirmation.
This information was provided two weeks later, last Thursday, via a post mortem certificate that was received by the Indian High Commission in Guyana via fax from the NAIR hospital. A picture of the woman’s face was also sent along with the death certificate.
According to the death certificate, a 34-year-old female, listed as Lwinda Alsting Nicholas, died at the facility at 12 AM on July 5.
The provisional cause of death was stated as being septicaemia with bilateral intrapulmonary haemorrhage in an operated case of malignant mullerias tumor of the uterus (cancer of the uterus). The certificate stated the cause of death as being natural.
With answers to all her questions appearing before her eyes, though, Scipio is not satisfied.
She is adamant that document does not refer to her daughter. Moreover, she is convinced that the person shown in the pictures does not bear any resemblance to Solomon-Lee.
She pointed out that the face in the picture could not have been her daughter since her daughter’s face is round. “This person face is long. This is not my child, my child has a round face,” the woman said.
Although still uncertain that the body is that of her daughter’s, the woman gave her consent to have the body released for burial in India.
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