Man beaten to death days after being admitted as patient at Psychiatric Hospital

A few days after being admitted as a patient at the National Psychiatric Hospital in East Berbice, a man has been beaten to death by patients there.
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of 32-year-old Dinesh Persaud of Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice. According to the Police, he died at sometime between 01:00 and 07:30h on Wednesday at the National Psychiatric Hospital at Fort Canje.

The dead man’s parents say he had been taken to see a private psychiatric doctor on Monday, and had been referred to the National Psychiatric Hospital. According to his father Devendra Persaud, he had visited his son at the psychiatric institution on Tuesday, and the next morning he received a telephone call to inform that his son had been transferred to the Public Hospital at New Amsterdam. He said that call had come from the social worker attached to the facility.
According to the Police, an initial investigation revealed that, at about 5:55h on Wednesday, a nurse on duty at the facility was alerted to a patient lying motionless on the floor with blood oozing from his mouth and nostrils. That patient was taken to New Amsterdam Public Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
An autopsy conducted on the body on Friday gave the cause of death as shock, with cerebral haemorrhage due to a fracture to the skull.
The Health Department has issued no statement on the incident. The dead man’s mother says the National Psychiatric Hospital has not provided the family with any information. However, Police say they are investigating the incident.