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Sep 25, 2011 News
The education fraternity is in deep shock. Many woke up to the news yesterday morning that veteran educationist, Rajkishore Mangal, MS, had died at the New Amsterdam Hospital on Friday evening. He was 70.
According to Mrs Mangal, her husband was admitted to the hospital on Thursday evening after complaining of shortness of breath. She added that he was “very restless and couldn’t breathe…couldn’t lie down”. She added that she spoke to him and he laughed and talked, even complimented the nurses at the hospital on Friday.
“He drank soup, he talked good about the nurses…he did not indicate anything”, she said.
Later that evening she received a call from one of the nurses telling her that he had died. “I said ‘It can’t be, I left him alright,” she recalled as she broke down in tears.
Mr Mangal had given 48 years to the education system in Guyana, having served as Headmaster of the Berbice Educational Institute (BEI), from which he retired in 1995. He then started up the first branch of the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) at Rose Hall Town, Berbice also in 1995. For the first time, trained secondary school teachers were being churned out in the education system here in Berbice.
He received the Medal of Service from President Bharrat Jagdeo in 2002 for his outstanding contributions to education.
He retired fully from public life a few years ago and relaxed at his Philadelphia Street, New Amsterdam home.
He leaves to mourn his wife, a retired Matron of the New Amsterdam Hospital, his son Roy, daughter-in-law, Hemwattie and grandson, Arun.
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