A one-year-old boy is now dead after he reportedly drowned in an inflatable pool at his home.
Dead is Deon Lalsa, of Lot E D’Edward Village, West Coast Berbice.
Reports are that the toddler was at home with his mother and six-year-old brother on Sunday when at about 16:00h his mother went to the washroom, leaving the two children. It is suspected that the infant may have made his way out of the house and went into the yard, where the inflatable pool was situated.
Relatives suspect that the baby was attempting to reach for a ball that was in the pool, when he may have fallen into the water.
The child’s father, Devindra Lalsa, told this publication that his wife did not spend more than two minutes in the washroom.
After the discovery was made, Deon was pulled out of the pool, reportedly still breathing, but unconscious.
According to the father, he was rushed to the Fort Wellington Hospital.
“When the kid meet at the hospital, the doctor or the nurse didn’t do no CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation). In less than five minutes they give up the child and the child was breathing in the hospital. When they put the monitor on the child when the heartbeat was reading on the monitor,” the father claimed.
He noted that his wife was reportedly sent out of the emergency room after stating that a heartbeat was being shown on the monitor.
“Then they declared that the child died,” he added. According to Lalsa, it would have taken his wife about ten minutes to get from D’Edward to Fort Wellington. A post-mortem is expected to be done later this week.
The matter was reported to the Police and an investigation has been launched. (G4)
