NA woman dies after telling police she was given poisonous substance

Debbie Blacks

A New Amsterdam, Berbice woman died after she told police that she was fed a poisonous substance by another female while hospitalized in the New Amsterdam Public Hospital.

Dead is Debbie Blacks, 26, a sales person from New Amsterdam, Region Six.

Her aunt, Fiona Agard yesterday told Stabroek News that on Tuesday morning she received a phone call that her niece had been hospitalized after which she ventured over to the hospital.