An autopsy has found that organ failure caused the death of Charran ‘Ajai’ Dhanai, the 15-year-old of Crabwood Creek, Corentyne, who passed away at the Skeldon Hospital last week after being admitted for a fever.
However, the autopsy, which was performed on Tuesday at the New Amsterdam Hospital, did not go down too well with the family of Dhanai, who say that it only raises more questions.
“Me ain’t satisfied with that thing… this boy liver black, like a baigan (boulanger) and his kidneys clear outside and when they burst it, is sheer blood inside,” the boy’s father, Krishnanand Dhanai, told Stabroek News. “How he can die of organ failure? If one organ failed him, all will fail him?” he questioned.
Dhanai believes something is amiss. “I believe them trying to play a game with us… why she [doctor in charge of Skeldon hospital who admitted the boy] couldn’t give me the dead on [last] Wednesday to get cut…? She detained me and talked with all the doctors and then gave me the dead to cut,” he said. “Them make them own arrangement and then give me the dead.”
The father also said that the boy’s liver, kidneys and lungs were bottled and sent to Georgetown Hospital for further tests. “I ain’t know if them go throw away them [the organs] and then put new ones inside or throw away them and say they did not meet [the hospital] for the tests; we don’t really know what is going on,” Dhanai added.
He also said because the family was told that Skeldon Hospital does not have a doctor who could perform the autopsy, it had to pay $23,000 to hire a hearse to transport the body to New Amsterdam Hospital
Efforts to reach the doctor at the Skeldon Hospital again proved unsuccessful and calls to this newspaper were not returned.
The boy was buried yesterday.
Dhanai died last week Tuesday, a day after he was admitted for a high fever at the Skeldon Hospital. His mother, Savitree Looknauth, had related to Stabroek News that her son’s condition on Tuesday improved as did his outward appearance and strength. However, when she went for the afternoon visit, she found that his appearance had deteriorated.
Looknauth said that she told the nurses that her son had a high fever and asked them to check on him. “They tested his temperature and never to come back to say anything,” she said. “Then me son coughed and spitted and brought up some blood and I became frightened and go back to the nurses and called them,” she further related, adding that a doctor then administered an injection to the boy. The woman was asked to leave the room but got a glimpse of the act.
Subsequently, the boy asked her for some water, which she gave and he said that his eyes felt as though they were closing, the mother said. “My son claimed that before they gave him the two injections, they had already given him one before so that totals to three injections,” she added.
Later that evening, just after 11pm, Looknauth received a call from the hospital informing her that the boy had died.
According to her, other patients’ accounts indicate that her son was groaning for a good time and started to vomit. A patient later called for the nurse and then the doctor. “…When he came upstairs, he said my son bled for 15 minutes and bled very bad,” she added.
A medical source revealed to Stabroek News that the boy could have died from a drug overdose, which may have caused his system to cease to function.
