FAMILY members of Jagdeshwar Singh, 53, of Perservance Village, Region Two, are calling on the police of ‘G’ Division to launch a thorough investigation into his death.

Singh was found lying, last Tuesday, in a pool of blood on the Perservance Public Road around 18:00 hrs, not far from his home.

Relatives of the deceased believed that if Singh was given proper medical attention, he could have survived the trauma. According to the sister of the deceased, Chand Samaroo, he was picked up in an unconscious state and rushed to the Suddie Public Hospital. Prior to his discovery, she said she was told that he was imbibing with friends earlier in the day. The sister is, however, clueless as to what happened to her brother but desires justice.

Relating the story to this newspaper, Samaroo said that her brother was rushed to the Suddie Public Hospital and had to undergo emergency surgery. He was then listed as critical and was scheduled to go to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation. The grieving sister said that her brother was placed in the ambulance and went early the morning for the first ferry but missed it after medical officials claimed that they forgot to inform the stelling officials that they had a patient.

The sister said her brother was helpless and medical officials at the hospital were debating as to which doctor will go with the patient. She said they rushed him with the midday ferry and while he was being transported to the GPHC, he died. The distressed sister blamed her brother’s death on the negligence of the hospital and posited that if her brother had made it on the morning boat, maybe he could have survived.

The sister said that the post-mortem, conducted on the deceased, revealed he died from blunt trauma to his head. One person was in custody but was later released.