St. Paul’s student makes slow recovery after minibus accident

Mar 27, 2011 News

Christina Melville, the seven-year-old Saint Paul’s Primary School student, who was hospitalized almost three weeks ago after sustaining injuries after a minibus hit her, is now showing signs of progress in her recovery, as she awaits another surgery. The minibus was driven by a woman.
On Friday, last, at the Children’s Ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), she was asleep while her mother explained to this newspaper that the doctors had “grafted Christina’s feet together”, a part of the necessary treatment and procedure to assist in correcting the damage done to the child’s feet as a result of the accident.
Her mother lifted the bed sheet that was covering Christina’s feet to show what her daughter’s feet looked like in its current state.
This publication was told that the perpetrator is still “not accepting the blame for Christina’s situation”. A few days before the festivities of Phagwah (Holi), the perpetrator brought her teenaged daughter and her daughter’s friend to the GPHC and sent them to visit Christina.
According to Christina’s family, the teenaged girl began raising her voice while exclaiming that “Christina playing tricks” and went on to remark that the injured girl was “only fooling the doctors since nothing serious happen to her”.
The girl, accompanied by her friend, created such a ruckus in the Children’s Ward that nurses and doctors had to “chase them out” while the perpetrator waited patiently outside of the ward for the two girls.
Kaieteur News understands that Christina is to undergo another surgery, this time to separate the two legs since they began to heal and paste because they are currently grafted and bound to each other.