11 days later…Lone survivor of Charlestown fire ‘now coming around’

Oct 11, 2012 News

After spending the past 10 days battling for her life in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), Yolanda Cort, the lone survivor in the Charlestown fire which claimed the lives of four persons, is now said to be “coming around”.
Cort, of Lot 2 Drysdale Street, Charlestown, is said to be semi-conscious but cannot speak as yet. This is according to her sister, Sueann Cort.

The badly burnt woman when she was pregnant with Akesha Cordis

Although the badly burnt woman is “semi-conscious” and moving, doctors are still looking at her as a critical patient.
The mother of two was badly burnt in an early morning fire which started at her home on September 29 last, and claimed the lives of four other persons, including three children.
In the fire, Cort lost her two daughters, three-year-old Kelisha Solomon, and one-year-old Akesha Cordis.
Doctors at the institution told family members that the badly burnt woman has a 50-50 chance of survival.
Yesterday, during a telephone interview with this newspaper, Sueann Cort revealed that whenever relatives try to communicate with the badly burnt woman, she would react by opening her eyes and move her body. “If you call her name, she would open her eyes and look around and move.”
The healthy Cort is suspicious about her sister’s ability to see. “Whenever you talk to her she would open her eyes and she would not look at the person who is talking to her; she would look away.”
On September 29, Abiola Taylor, her four-year-old son Justin Taylor, and Cort’s two children lost their lives in a fire which started at around 07:30hrs at their home.