After 41 days of fasting, hunger striker Dr Wayne Kublalsingh does not think he can make it beyond the next two or three days.
And if he does not, his death will be a gift to the people of T&T, he says.
Admitting he did not want to die, he made no mention of changing his mind about his strike.
Kublalsingh spoke to the T&T Guardian in an interview at his La Florissante, D’Abadie, home yesterday, 42 days since he embarked on a second hunger strike.
He said: “I’m good to go for another day. I don’t think I could go beyond the next two or three days. This week is critical.
“I am very happy where I am. I am very contented. I see it like a gift of love to the people. There is no fear, there is no despair. People go to war every day and die. This is a social war.”
Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake played from two small speakers on a table close to his bed.
While he spoke, his son, Ori, cheerfully got ready for law school and his wife, Sylvia, recovering from an attack of ChikV, shuffled around painfully.
Kublalsingh said he did not believe his spirit would die along with his body.
He has been monitoring his body in a close way, he said, and felt it “will now relent.”
“My urination got very weak. I almost don’t use the bathroom at all. I have some heart palpitations, signs my body is on the edge.
“I keep bringing it back with prayer and meditation but can only do this for so long,” he added.
He said he had rejected the intervention of all medical personnel and even an ambulance but if his body “relented,” he did not know what would happen.
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Eight days ago, after 34 days on the pavement outside the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) in St Clair, Kublalsingh said he could no longer continue the strike there because he was too weak so would continue it at home.
Kublalsingh embarked on his second hunger strike on September 17 outside the OPM. It is in protest against Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s refusal to meet with him to discuss the Debe to Mon Desir segment of the billion-dollar Solomon Hochoy highway extension to Point Fortin.
He and the Highway Re-route Movement he leads have been protesting the planned route of the construction of this segment because of what they argue will be the negative ecological impact and social disruption.
Persad-Bissessar has refused to meet with Kublalsingh and has stood her ground, saying the highway, for the benefit of thousands, will go on.
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Nine days ago, on October 20 on the pavement outside the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) in St Clair, Kublalsingh said he could no longer continue the strike there because he was too weak so would continue it at home.
Kublalsingh embarked on his second hunger strike on September 17 outside the OPM. It is in protest against Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s refusal to meet with him to discuss the Debe to Mon Desir segment of the billion-dollar Solomon Hochoy highway extension to Point Fortin.
He and the Highway Re-route Movement he leads have been protesting the planned route of the construction of this segment because of what they argue will be the negative ecological impact and social disruption.
Persad-Bissessar has refused to meet with Kublalsingh and has stood her ground, saying the highway, for the benefit of thousands, will go on.