Painful letter on Dr Mahabir

THE EDITOR: That letter from Trevor Sudama must pain the relatives of Dr Winston Mahabir.  I wondered what redeeming social value you saw in it.

Now, my cousin Earl Smith, an accountant with Amoco, recently returned from setting up Amoco’s accounting system for its Gabon office in West Africa, died at San Fernando General Hospital in May of 1987, of cerebral haemorrhage.  He was taken there about 10 pm the evening before, but they thought he was drunk, and left him on a trolley in a hallway.  When he died at 1 pm, he had not yet seen a doctor. Should I do research now to see which NAR Cell had infiltrated the Sando Hospital at the time, and so was responsible for my cousin’s death?  Earl was 35, and a graduate of Temple University.  He could have had another 35 years to reach his three-score and ten. Would Mr Sudama, whom I believe to be a lawyer, advise a lawsuit?  Earl’s American daughter is now of legal majority and could pursue this on her own.  Was Mr Sudama a member of the NAR in 1987?  Should he be blamed partially for my younger cousin’s untimely death? This is not to re-open old wounds, but to say: enough already.

LINDA EDWARDS
Port-of-Spain