The Eastern Regional Health Authority (ERHA) has launched an investigation into the death of Rio Claro father of two Motilal Dookeran.
Expressing condolences to the family in a press release, the authority stated that Dookeran, 55, came to the Accident and Emergency Department of the Rio Claro Health Centre on Wednesday.
“The patient was reviewed, treated and discharged by medial personnel at the Health Centre. He subsequently died after his return home. The authority has commenced investigations into this matter.”
Dookeran’s death was made public by his daughter Jolene who took to Facebook to express her outrage over the treatment, or lack thereof, her father received at the centre.
She complained that her father was taken to the health centre after experiencing extreme pain and numbness in both his shoulders and arms.
After waiting an hour, she said her father was prescribed medication after being told he had just slept bad and had gas pain.
Within ten minutes of arriving home, she said, her father died.
Jolene posted on her Facebook yesterday that a doctor from the centre contacted her family and promised that an investigation would be launched into the treatment her father received.