By Trina A. San Agustin
Variety News Staff

THE six-year-old boy who was taken to the Guam Memorial Hospital Saturday afternoon after being pulled from a pool in the Garden Villa in Tumon died Monday at 10:40 p.m., bringing to six the number of drowning victims on Guam for the year.
According to the GMH nursing supervisor on duty, the boy was on a respirator in the hospital’s pediatric intensive care unit since he was brought there Saturday night.
Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Aurelio Espinola told Variety that he did not conduct an autopsy on the boy’s remains.
“There was no autopsy needed. I just examined his remains,” Espinola told Variety. “I signed it (the cause of death) as near drowning. There is no point in doing an autopsy on those cases that are hospitalized after near drowning.”
Emergency responders rushed to the pool in Garden Villa in Tumon a little before 3 p.m. Saturday after the boy was reported to have nearly drowned.
Garden Villa, a condominium complex, is located across the street from the Fiesta Resort.
In April alone, there were three drowning deaths, including the boy who died April 30.
On April 23, the body of Auti Akineo Kasuta, 35, was pulled from waters off Tanguisson Beach. He was the fifth drowning victim.
On April 5, the fourth drowing victim, a 33-year-old man, was pulled from Y’pao Beach waters. He remained at GMH until he died on April 6.