A PHARMACIST attached to Suddie Public Hospital on Essequibo Coast has committed suicide.
Reports said 28-year-old Gindawattie Nateram, a married mother of one, drank a poisonous substance after experiencing domestic problems. After she had consumed the poison, she was admitted a patient at Suddie Hospital, where she spent eight days before dying.
It is reported that doctors at the institution did everything they could to save her life but she had drunk too much of the liquid.
Before taking the dose, Nateram is reported to have sought help from the Probation and Welfare Department at Anna Regina.
Prior to her cremation at La Union foreshore yesterday, a funeral service, according to Hindu rites, was held at her Walton Hall home, where several of her fellow hospital employees shed tears.
Some said she had suffered silently and felt that suicide was the only way out but, while in the hospital for eight days, she cried, regretted what she had done and prayed for precious life but it was too late.
Meanwhile, reports said two other young housewives, who also drank poison and were rushed to Charity Hospital, also on the Essequibo Coast, in critical condition, were saved.