Cattle farmer dies after being beaten

A cattle farmer is now dead after he was allegedly beaten in East Canje, Berbice. However, the man’s family is blaming medical personnel at the New Amsterdam Hospital, who had treated the farmer and sent him away.

Dead: 58-year-old Arjunan Andiappan

Dead is 58-year-old Arjunan Andiappan, a labourer of Kalabash Creek, Canje River, Berbice, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne).
The incident reportedly occurred at Wallis Street.
The now dead man’s sister, Tangache Balgobin, told the Police that she heard of the incident and went to the scene, which was a few houses away, and saw her brother bleeding from his head.
The woman said she left, went home and got prepared to take her brother to the hospital but during this time, the injured man left with a neighbour to seek medical attention. She recalled that the incident occurred at about 01:30h on New Year’s Day.
Balgobin told this publication that on her way to the hospital, a car brought her brother back home from the hospital.
When the car stopped, she said she recognised that her brother was bleeding profusely from the head and she brought this to the attention of the others in the car but was told that the wound to his head was sutured at the hospital and he was sent home.
“So, I jump in the car and took him to the Reliance Police Station and they give me a paper and tell me to take him to the New Amsterdam Hospital.”
Balgobin said she subsequently took her brother back to the hospital but the staff claimed that he was already treated by a doctor and there was nothing they could do.
As time went on and Andiappan’s condition worsened, he was taken to the hospital for the third time.
“…and then is when they do whatever they had to do but shortly after the doctor told us that he is in a critical condition and they were about to take him to Georgetown but they say that he can’t travel because the brain already cease and he don’t have long to live so they just have to wait until,” she said with tears in her eyes.
Andiappan subsequently died.
According to Balgobin, neighbours who reportedly witnessed the incident said that Andiappan was beaten by several villagers. However, the reason behind the beating is still unknown.
Police have since detained two persons.