Zeelugt woman dies after ambulance crashes

Chanruttie Sukhdeo

A Zeelugt woman being transferred from the Leonora Cottage Hospital to the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) for blood pressure-related illnesses on Sunday afternoon died following an accident involving the ambulance transporting her and a minibus.

A post-mortem examination carried out yesterday, her relatives say, determined that she succumbed to blood pressure-related complications and brain hemorrhaging, although it is unclear if the latter is connected to the accident.

Forty-five-year-old Chanruttie Sukhdeo, of 30 New Scheme Zeelugt South, West Demerara, saw her blood pressure spike on Sunday