Families of three Berbice children who died in hospital still awaiting answers

Naiomi Raghu

The families of three Berbice children who died in hospital last month are still awaiting answers from the authorities on what exactly caused their deaths.

Kumar Mohabeer, 33, of Canefield, East Canje Berbice, father of two of the children, Vishnu Mohabeer, also known as ‘Ricardo’, 10, and Arianna Mohabeer, 9, who died suddenly last month, yesterday told this newspaper  that despite their efforts to contact officials within the regional health authority they have not received any official word as to the cause of death of Arianna and the ongoing investigation.

“Them na tell we back nothing, nothing we na hear, we were supposed to hear back from them today (Monday) but we na hear nothing so we say tomorrow we would a go meet Dr. (Vishalya) Sharma (Director of Regional Health Services, Region Six).”