Another elderly man commits suicide

YET another elderly person from the southland has committed suicide because of health problems this past week. Just a day after amputee Sundar Singh, 60, a diabetic, was found hanging from a railing at the San Fernando General Hospital, a 70-year-old stroke victim died at the same hospital after ingesting a toxic substance. Police sources told Newsday, that stroke victim Lalla Ramkissoon, was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer. Ramkissoon of San Francique, Penal was confined to bed and had become frustrated and depresssed over his health condition. Ramkissoon was found frothing around 6.30 am by his son Ryan Ramkissoon, 41, who had gone to check on the elderly man. According to reports, Ryan observed that his father was not on his bed and went in search of him. The shocked man told investigators that he went outside and found his father frothing on the ground.  The elderly man was seen holding a brown plastic bottle which contained a toxic substance police believe to be the deadly weedicide gramoxone. He was also holding a cup.

The elderly man reportedly told his son that he had just drank the poisonous liquid. An Emergency Health Service (EHS) ambulance was summoned and the semi-conscious man was rushed to the San Fernando General Hospital, where he was admitted to Ward 12. He died at around 9.30 am. An autopsy is expected to be performed at the San Fernando General Hospital mortuary on Monday. PC Khan of the Penal CID visited the scene and is continuing investigations. Another autopsy expected to be done on Monday at the Forensic Sciences Centre will be on the body  of Sundar Singh, 60, who apparently committed suicide at the San Fernando General Hospital on Wednesday. According to reports, around 5 am police officers got a telephone tip-off and went to the hospital where they found Singh hanging from a rope secured to a railing on the northern side of the hospital.