–baby still in hospital under observation

NINETEEN-year-old Roshanie Ramlakhan, who last weekend reportedly drank poison and fed some to her year-old baby, has died.

She died at the Skeldon Hospital where she and the baby were admitted on Thursday afternoon, despite doctors effort to save her.

Reports are that the East Berbice teenager was last Friday found semi-conscious near the Number 61 bus shed with a greenish substance coming out of her mouth. She also had her baby with her, and he was crying uncontrollably.

Relatives said she had confessed to them when she was able to speak that she had ingested a poisonous substance and rubbed some on the child’s mouth.

Last Tuesday when the Guyana Chronicle spoke to Ramlakhan’s mother, Kayolall Thakurdyal, she said that doctors at the Skeldon Hospital where the teen and her baby were admitted were able to flush the poison out of the toddler’s system, and that though his lips were still red, swollen and blistered, he was able to take his formula.

The latest on the toddler is that he is in a stable condition, but is being monitored around-the-clock by a medical team.

Thakurdyal said she had learnt that her daughter had drank gramaxone after having had a particularly heated argument with her husband.

The husband, Dinesh Singh, 23, later told the Guyana Chronicle that he and Roshini did had an argument that day, but it was nothing major as to warrant her wanting to take her life.

“We had a li’l quarrel the morning, but we did okay; was not a big fight or so,” Dinesh said, “but like she took it to heart and decided to try fuh kill sheself and meh son.”

He said they would always have their little arguments, but recalled her threatening once, when their son was just three months old, that she would end both their lives.

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