Peruvian officials have launched a probe into the sudden death of young Guyanese scholar Yogeeta Persaud.
According to a report in the Peruvian media, police confirmed that Persaud died suddenly while on a medical outreach at Anta Province of Cusco on Sunday.
Prosecutor on duty, Rafael Vasquez Cuba who is in charge of the investigation, said that the autopsy is pending.
Persaud, 22, a past top CSEC performer, met her demise in a most mysterious manner after she reportedly “dropped dead” on Sunday, while she was involved in a medical outreach program in Peru.
According to relatives of the now deceased young lady, Persaud collapsed at about 14:00h on Sunday, while she was reportedly shadowing a professional medical practitioner.
The outreach program was organised by the young lady’s university in New York city, and it has only been a week since it commenced.
In 2013, Persaud copped the position of Guyana’s second top performer at CSEC and was granted a scholarship to study abroad.
As such, in 2014, she migrated to the United States where she earned a Bachelor’s Degree in biochemistry.
According to her father, the medical outreach was just another stepping stone towards her future, since it was supposed to gain her entry into a medical school.
