Woman seriously hurt when stall collapses on her

May 13, 2010 News

Rohini Dasrath

Thirty-two-year Rohini Dasrath, a mother of three, enjoyed a healthy lifestyle until a recent accident that has permanently left her with injuries that threaten her mobility.
Dasrath said that six weeks after her accident she suffers from blurred vision, faints periodically, experiences constant headaches, severe ear pains and sporadic memory loss.
She is scared of losing complete vision in one eye, as a result of the severe hit she sustained.
The woman who also has a permanent visible scar on her right temple as a result of the accident recalled visiting the Anna Regina municipal market on April 3, last. She recalled being at a stall observing some clothing when all of a sudden she felt a severe blow to her head.
She said that she fell to the ground a bloody mess. Dasrath said she lay helpless on the road for at least five minutes without receiving any assistance from the vendor whose iron rocker had collapsed and hit her. There was also no assistance for the customers who were at the market. She however recalled receiving assistance from a kind businesswoman who helped put her in a car and took her to the Suddie Public Hospital.
Dasrath sustained eleven stitches to her temple.
The distraught woman said that one day after she was hospitalized she subsequently ventured to the police station at Anna Regina where she lodged a complaint, but the police rank who took the statement retorted, “The vendor was intoxicated.”
The woman, who also suffers from asthma, said that on her second visit at the police station she was told by another officer that the vendor, Lakeramnarine, aka Berbician, later visited the station and agreed to foot all of her medical expenses.
To date his promised has not materialized .
Dasrath who must pay frequent visits to the hospital, said that she is financially incapable of affording all those expenses.
Mrs. Dasrath, who has to undertake a headscan which will determined the cause of the constant pain at the back of her head also confessed that because of her family’s poor financial state, she cannot seek any assistance from them to cover her expenses.
The woman noted with frustration that she also forwarded complained to both the Town Clerk and the Clerk of Markets, Wazeer Dhanraj, who told her he cannot do anything to help her.