New information suggests that negligence may have played a role in 43-year-old Vishal Ramotar jumping to his death from a window of the second-flat Male Medical ward of the West Demerara Regional Hospital to the concrete ground below, because his psychological issues went unrecognized.
Sources in the hospital said that if the nurses assigned to take care of the man had been paying more attention they would have noticed that he had developed signs of depression which, if left unaddressed had the tendency to lead to suicide. Sources stated that the man had certain conditions that he was not coping well with because it meant he would likely die soon, but related that having these conditions alone would not have been enough to drive him to take his life. The sources insist
