An autopsy conducted yesterday on Devi ‘Tina’ Mangal, the six-year-old girl who West Canje, Berbice girl who died last week, but pathologist Dr. Vivikanand Brijmohan is not yet ready to release the findings.

He told Stabroek News yesterday that he has “found something” and has sent specimens for testing and wants to “verify with the laboratory results before I release any findings.”

Devi fell sick with vomiting, diarrhoea and pain about the body on Tuesday afternoon. She died around 8 am on Wednesday morning after she was taken to the New Amsterdam Hospital.

Her mother, Lilawattie ‘Chiney’ Ramdeen, said her eldest child, Ajay Mangal, 9, also became ill on Wednesday with symptoms similar to those of his sister and he too was admitted to the hospital.

Subsequently, his two other siblings, Devishkar Mangal, seven, and one-year-old, Lisa Edwards got sick and they became patients at the institution. Devishkar and Lisa were subsequently discharged on Saturday.

Ramdeen was making arrangements to take them home when hospital staff informed her that they had received instructions to keep them until the autopsy had been completed.

However, yesterday the boys’ father turned up at the hospital to take them away and Ramdeen had to seek the intervention of the Probation & Welfare Department of Region 6. Meanwhile, Ramdeen herself had been hospitalised on Saturday and had to receive saline drips after she too experienced symptoms similar to those of her children.