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Man falls off shed, dies hours later
A 54-year-old man was pronounced dead at the West Demerara Regional Hospital around 23:30hrs on Friday, hours after he fell from a shed, which is reportedly nine feet high, and hit his head.
The dead man has been identified as Bisnauth Singh, a brush cutter operator attached to the said hospital.
He lived at Best Foreshore, West Coast Demerara (WCD), in the vicinity of the Ezekiel Funeral Parlour.
According to information received, Singh was standing on a shed, painting a structure when he slipped and fell to the concreted area below.
This happened around 18:00 hrs on Friday.
Chetram Singh, the dead man’s son explained that when his father fell off the shed, they rushed him to the hospital where they were told that everything was okay with him.
“The doctor requested an X-ray, but when we went the workers in that department refused to do it. They said that they only have small films and they didn’t want to do it.
I had to beg them to print the result on the small film. When I took it to the doctor, he said he ain’t see anything wrong with my father and they stitched his head and then send him away,” Singh explained.
He added that his father was in tears when he left the hospital.
“He didn’t want to go home. The pain was too much, but the doctor didn’t want to admit him, so we didn’t have a choice.”
Singh stated that when he took his father home, he continued crying out for pain.
“Around 11’o clock (23:00hrs) he fainted and when we took him back to the hospital, the doctor pronounced him dead,” the dead man’s son recounted.
Family members are blaming the hospital for Bisnauth Singh’s demise. “If they had printed his result on the regular film, then maybe the doctor would have been more accurate with his judgment.”
“They didn’t even test my father pressure, they just stitched his head, give him pain killers and send him away, and my father was working for that place for 20 years,” a devastated Singh stated.
Bisnauth Singh leaves to mourn his three children and siblings.
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