THE Freddie Kissoon Show last Wednesday in which the topic was the Adriana Younge tragedy featured many controversial remarks with the two guests, both from ANUG, its leader Dr. Mark France and ANUG foundation member, Kian Jabour.

The show generated a huge viewership and, according to co-host Leonard Craig, many Facebook comments were unkind to me. I have learnt over the long, long decades that once a mind is made up, it is impossible to change it. People with a certain political bent will not like my analysis of the tragedy; those very people pretend to understand the pain of the Young family while their intention is to use the tragedy to massage their political beliefs.
Both France and Jabour saw nothing wrong with the request for a second post-mortem. I did not object to that, but my contention from April 28 was when the family rejected the original post-mortem was there an explanation for a second examination. Jabour descended to the mundane by asking me if people don’t need a second doctor’s opinion.

He missed the point badly. So I had to expose his basic flaw. If you want a second doctor’s opinion, there has to be a logical, sane, rational reason for you to want to have a second medical opinion.
What is the reason for the Younge family wanting a second post-mortem? According to the lawyer Dexter Todd, the family believed a process of “infiltration” occurred with all three pathologists and one can assume with the family doctor and the family lawyer, both of whom are no longer representing the family. I am not going to discuss what it meant by Todd’s word of infiltration.

Now we have the toxicology report. Some known politicians have poured cold water on the report and are still yelling out that a murder has been committed. So the compelling question for any normal mind is; were the toxicologists infiltrated? If you believe the toxicologists were infiltrated, then you have no respect for humans.

The people who did the toxicological examination at Mount Sinai Hospital may know the pathologist who works there who came to Guyana last month. But they probably do not know the Barbadian and Delaware pathologists. Let’s stick with the toxicologists. They are laboratory people who perhaps do not even know about the tragedy in Guyana. Why, then, is their report not accepted?

Were they “infiltrated?” So we have the infiltration of three pathologists, the family doctor, the family lawyer, and now we have the infiltration of the toxicologists. It seems that a lot of people have been infiltrated.
Here is what had to happen in the labs of Mount Sinai. Some person or persons would have contacted the toxicologists and asked them to discard what they found and substitute another finding. Is this how professional

experts should be treated? But let’s stick with Dexter Todd. He said that is possible the post-mortem of the three pathologists were done under fear given what was happening in the hospital compound.
Can Todd tell this nation what pressure the toxicologists were under so their finding can be subjected to questioning? It should be noted that the family’s pathologist from Delaware in the United States signed the final post-mortem report that included the toxicologists from Mount Sinai.

I would like to invite Jabour and France again and let them tell me and the viewing public why they think the toxicology report cannot be accepted by the family. I believe we should put ourselves in the mind of the parents of Adriana Younge. They lost a child and a lot of grief and emotions are riveting them.

If they reject the toxicology report, one can put it down to stress. But what reason other Guyanese in and out of the land have for rejecting the toxicology report? There is only one reason – the agenda of using a Guyanese tragedy for abominable political purposes.

I am not a medical doctor, so I will keep away from comments on medicine, autopsies, toxicology, etc. But in my humble opinion, if the young girl was murdered, it will be of phenomenal curiosity around the world to know what type of murder she succumbed to, given that the first report saw a body that was not subjected to the application of violence. My sympathy goes out to the Younge family and I would suggest all Guyanese should accept what the second autopsy concludes and thus remove the bed of manure that some are using to politically fertilise this tragedy.