Relatives of 39-year-old Shaneeza Farouk of Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara who died after jumping out a window at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) on Friday evening, said that her condition had started to improve.
Her son, Steve Farouk, 23, said he was shocked to learn of her death because he last saw her on Friday and she showed no signs of being suicidal.
In fact, he said, she had almost completed her dialysis treatment and he was making arrangements for her to be admitted at a private institution.
He had also received a letter from the hospital on Monday to take to the Ministry of Health for financial assistance.
According to him, his mother was admitted at the GPH since last October after her body had started to swell.
He said the swelling had reduced with treatment she was “improving a lot.”
Her younger son, Vishnu Narine, 20, told this newspaper that last year he had taken her to the Leonora Cottage Hospital where she was diagnosed with renal failure.
She was receiving treatment every two weeks. At that time her feet had started to swell and she was complaining of abdominal pain. Her condition had not improved and he then took her to the West Demerara Regional Hospital and the doctors there referred her to the GPH.
Narine said he last spoke to his mother around 6.30 pm on Friday and she was okay. He too was shocked when he received a call from the hospital around 9 pm that she had jumped to her death.
He recalled sadly that when he and other relatives got there she was covered with a sheet and her “blood was still warm.”
He believes his mother ended her life because she was frustrated about being in the hospital so long.
