- four reported cases of attempted suicide
Given the growing number of reported cases of suicide the Guyana Police Force
have stated that they will now be prosecuting person who survive their suicide
attempt.
Of recent, the trend of people attempting to take their own life seems to be
growing rapidly.
For yesterday alone at the Georgetown Public Hospital there were four reported
cases of attempted suicide. According to a senior police source once a person
survives they will be prosecuted and placed before the courts.
Before noon yesterday two teens, a boy and a girl from the West Demerara area,
were rushed to the hospital after they admitted to ingesting poison to end their
life.
As if looking after three children without a permanent job is not enough,
Kallicharran Feroz, also known as Sharma, the father of the three boys, aged 9,
12 and 14 years, was faced with another predicament yesterday.
Around 6:30 hours on Tuesday, he left the three boys home to go in search of a
job, only to get a phone call saying that his eldest son had ingested some of
the poison that he had purchased to spray his yard.
The poison as identified as gramoxone.
Late yesterday, the second of the three boys was staying at one of their
neighbours’ house. He said that he and his other brother told him that his
brother just taken poison. He said that he called his neighbours for help
because he got scared.
According to Dilinee, their next door neighbour, after she heard the boy
calling, she went outside to investigate only to be informed that one of them
had taken poison.
She said that she started to call for help whilst going over. On her way over she saw the attempted suicide running through the back door.
“Me two sons run behind that boy fuh try to hold him, but he jump two fences
and go and hide in some bushes. Dem search fuh he, but he hide fuh like 10 to
15minutes. Then he come out,” she said.
She said that she called his grandmother, and together they took him to the
Leonora Cottage Hospital, from where he was later transferred.
The boy was said to have become unruly and that some time earlier he had scared
his brothers when he told them that he was going to take poison.
The brothers begged and he then laughed and disposed of the substance.
According to their father, the boy’s mother left home to visit a doctor in
February last year and never returned.
He said that he searched all over but never found the woman. He said that he has
since learnt that she has migrated to Barbados where she is living with someone
else.
Later yesterday, a 15-year-old girl from Crane West Coast Demerara
was also rushed to the same facility after she too admitted to ingesting
‘snake poison.
This teen claimed that she had a misunderstanding with her mother and she became
frustrated and attempted to end her life.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
