DEOROO, the middle-aged man who was abandoned at the Fort Wellington Hospital by relatives and who through the pages of the Guyana Chronicle made an appeal for relatives to take him home, died at the Hospital on Monday last without having his heart’s desire.

His cause of death was determined to be infection of the scalp.

While he was alive, the man was occasionally lucid and had at such times disclosed that he hails from Ruimzigt on the West Coast of Demerara and had children living there.

He told officials that his wife was deceased and that he had travelled to Suriname to work recently but had taken ill.

He said he was brought back to Guyana by a Guyanese woman who had been moved by the poor circumstances in which she had seen him living in Suriname.

Meanwhile a relative of the man contacted through an investigation by the Guyana Chronicle said that he had believed that the man was still in Suriname and said he was shocked by the news of his death.

“He been living in Suriname since the 1980s and had been coming and going every now and then,” the relative said.

He said that the man had three children who are now adults but he had become estranged from them since they were at a tender age.

He said that he would alert other relatives of the passing of the man and they would see what they could do.

Meanwhile, hospital authorities told the Guyana Chronicle that they would allow relatives some time to retrieve the body and if they failed to do so Deoroo would be buried in a ‘potter’s field’ – a common grave, which is a place for unknown or indigent people.