FOUR-MONTH-OLD Phillip Bratt of Sophia, Greater Georgetown, the child who died at the Mothers’ Union Day Care facility on Robb Street, Georgetown last Tuesday, is reported to have died from pneumonia.

He had been rushed unconscious from that facility to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), where he had been pronounced dead on arrival.

The child was the only son of his mother, Chilion Archer, an employee of the GPH. The woman told the Guyana Chronicle that the boy had been in very good health, and she does not know what had really happened to him.

“This morning I got up and prepared my son for school. He was very strong and energetic despite he had a common cold. I don’t know exactly what could be the cause of death. (I am) a mother (who had been) carrying a baby for nine months (and taking) care of him for four months, and then have to lose him.

“Words cannot express how I am feeling. This is my only son,” the distraught mother lamented.

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung, and is usually caused by infection with viruses or bacteria.