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Former acting Chief Magistrate dies while awaiting entry at GPHC
Kaieteur News – Former acting Chief Magistrate, Cecil Sullivan, 88, died yesterday afternoon while awaiting entry into the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC’)s COVID-19 triage facility.
Former acting Chief Magistrate, Cecil Sullivan.
The hospital in a statement last evening stated that the former Magistrate was brought to the hospital’s East Street entrance in severe distress.
According to the statement, “based on the accounts received from staff members and bystanders, it is apparent that Mr. Sullivan was brought to the hospital’s East Street triage area in severe respiratory distress. Upon arriving at the triage facility, a public security officer accompanied Mr. Sullivan’s relative into the triage area and alerted the medical staff who upon examination found Mr. Sullivan unresponsive.”
However, according to an eyewitness, who was at the hospital when the former Magistrate’s relative brought him to the New Market Street entrance, he was denied entry after the security personnel was informed that he was COVID-19 positive.
The eyewitness revealed that the relatives were sent to the hospital’s COVID-19 triage facility at the East Street entrance.
“They had the man in the car and when they went to the East Street entrance, they had a lil misunderstanding and the man was in the car for about 15 minutes and when they checked, the man died right in the vehicle,” the eyewitness noted.
This publication then contacted the hospital, who confirmed the incident but at that time could not provide any other information.
Subsequently, the hospital issued a press statement in which sympathy was extended to the relatives of the deceased. It went on to note that an investigation into Sullivan’s death will be conducted.
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