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Teenaged deaf-mute attempts suicide
A 19-year-old deaf-mute was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) on Sunday
Ryan Totoram
after he ingested a poisonous substance at his home.
Ryan Totoram is currently nursing internal damages at the hospital’s Male Surgical Ward.
It was reported by his mother, Sonita Totoram, that he ingested a significant amount of bleach around 17 :30 hours at their residence in Mon Repos, East Coast of Demerara.
After being alerted by a “loud noise” caused by her son’s collapse in his room, Totoram said that she found him, “frothing up on the floor” and quickly rushed him to the public hospital.
She told this publication that it was not the first time that her son attempted suicide. His mother recalled him trying to end his life with doses of kerosene earlier this year.
It was confirmed by nurses that Sunday marked the teenager’s “second” visit to the hospital this year, for the ingestion of a poisonous substance.
Totoram’s mother said that she does not know the reason for him attempting suicide. She said that her attempts to communicate and get answers from him proved futile.
“Ryan got too many friends about the place who got him drinking and behaving bad. I am a single parent and I trying with him but he don’t want to communicate with me. I know he does take on his deafness and dumbness, and I does try to help him but I don’t know why he want to give up on life.”
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