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Preliminary findings of Younge’s autopsy with police-Dr. Anthony
Kaieteur News- Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, has directed all queries relating to the preliminary findings of the post mortem examination (PME) performed on the body of 11-year-old Adriana Younge to the Guyana Police Force (GPF).
In a brief interview with Kaieteur News Monday, Dr Anthony declined to provide any information surrounding the autopsy which was performed at the Georgetown Public Hospital one week ago. He said the initial findings of the forensic examination have been handed over to the police.
“That is for the police. I don’t have one,” Dr Anthony stated, when asked about the report. He said further, that he is unaware if the family was given a copy of the findings.
“This is a police matter. All these things you got to talk to the police about.” Pressed further for clarity on the findings and whether it ruled out forced drowning as reported by President Irfaan Ali, Minister Anthony replied “what does it matter if I see it or didn’t see it. It is for the police to say, the police are the ones dealing with this matter. He, however, noted that based on his understanding, the family requested to have the whole process video recorded.
Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony
“The family had a videographer in the room from the beginning of the process right down to the end and the police had a videographer in the room that took videos from the beginning right down to the end. So, these videos are there from the family and from the police,” Dr Anthony said.
Adriana’s PME was conducted on April 28 by a three-member pathology team. The specialists included Dr. Shubhakar Karra Paul from Barbados Dr. Gary Collins, Chief Medical Examiner of Delaware, United States of America and Dr. Glenn Rudner of Mount Sinai Hospital. The pathologists concluded that the child’s death was caused by drowning. Her father, Subryan Younge had stated shortly after the results, that the findings could not be accepted. Days later, the family indicated that it was seeking a second autopsy.
In response to calls for a new autopsy, Dr Anthony questioned the legality of the exercise. According to him, after the child’s body was recovered, it was taken to the hospital and later to the Ezekiel Funeral Parlour until the time of the examination by the three pathologists.
He said since the body was handed over to the family after the autopsy, he could not speak to its security or whether it was compromised. He said the integrity of the second autopsy would then be questionable since the body was outside the custody of police officers. Dr Anthony noted, “Since Monday at the completion of the autopsy, the body was handed over to the family and was no longer in police custody. This, then, if another autopsy is being done, it will be done, but we don’t know since this body was not secured, we don’t know what would happen to the body from Monday to whenever that autopsy would be done. Also, we don’t know what would be the medical legal effect of that second autopsy.”
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It will be a good idea to include the Adriana medico legal case study at the primary and higher school levels. By so doing our children will be holistically educated within the realms of the Guyanese society and more understand the socio cultural environment in which they live.
Start with setting homework next include debates on this topic. Children are intelligent and they can understand much. We owe our children knowledge to safeguard them as they get older.