Yogendra Persaud, a Grade Four pupil of Graham’s Hall Primary, collapsed during the break period at his school on Wednesday, and was later pronounced dead on arrival at a city hospital.
The boy’s mother Veronica Reid related that she was told by Yogendra’s class teacher that he had been in the classroom playing when he asked for water. Shortly after he received it (she was unclear on whether he actually got the chance to drink it), she was told, he began to froth at the mouth and urinated himself, collapsing shortly afterwards. He was helped to a seat by the class teacher, who needed the assistance of another colleague to carry the child as he “had a weight” to him. He was subsequently rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
At present, there are conflicting reports surrounding the nine-year-old’s death, but all accounts given to the family seem to suggest that Yogendra may have ingested something shortly before he collapsed.
