One year after a gallstone surgery left her in a vegetative state at the Lethem Regional Hospital, Shulinab resident Thelma Ribeiro has died.
According to woman’s husband, Rodrick Ribeiro, who spoke to Stabroek News via telephone yesterday, his wife passed at approximately 6.18 pm on Thursday.
He also took the opportunity to register his dissatisfaction at the manner in which his wife’s case was handled.
“We wrote letters to the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs and the Ministry of Public Health seeking assistance and some form of investigation into what happened but nothing was really ever done,” the widower lamented.
“She went down from here healthy and was advised to do surgery for the gallstone.