A day after the death of Sharezer Mendonca, the third child to have died after receiving pre-chemotherapy treatment at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), her family was plunged into further turmoil after learning that her body was handed over to another family for burial.
Additionally, the family, which is considering legal action against the public hospital, also learnt that an unauthorised autopsy was performed on the corpse of the six-year-old as a result of the mix up.
Ganesh Hira, the attorney for the family, told Stabroek News last night in a telephone interview that the family is awaiting a pathologist from Trinidad and Tobago to conduct an independent autopsy to determine the cause of Mendonca’s death, which is now the subject of an investigation.
