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Oct 02, 2014 News
After being struck by the driver of an Education Ministry’s vehicle on Sunday, 13-year-old, Jameel Mounter, remains
critical at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
Mounter, a student of St. John’s Secondary School and resident of Stewartville, North East Housing Scheme, West Coast Demerara, is being treated at the hospital’s paediatric ward. He is nursing several injuries to his head, neck and about his body.
According to a cousin of the victim, Dania Alleyne, officials from the Ministry of Education offered a monetary donation to compensate the family for transportation expenses and necessities for the victim, but it was not accepted.
Alleyne said that the teenager’s condition is life threatening. He has a “fractured skull and internal bleeding”. The donation was not accepted by the family due to the severity of the accident.
According to Alleyne, the family is seeking only “justice.”
She also said that the Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, visited the hospital on Tuesday to check on Mounter’s condition, and to lend support to the family.
According to the victim’s father, Melwin Mounter, the Ministry of Education should display “more interest” in his son’s critical condition, since it was the reckless driving of one of their officials that caused the accident.
He recommended that a representative from the Ministry be sent frequently at GPHC to check on his son’s condition.
Mounter said that doctors will be meeting with the family tomorrow at GPHC, to present a complete analysis of his son’s current condition.
He also noted that the driver of the Education Ministry’s vehicle was released on $100, 000 bail yesterday, after spending 72 hours in the Leonora Police Station.
According to his father, Jameel Mounter was knocked down around 21:00 hours, while walking with two of his cousins to the Uitvlugt Community Centre, where the recent Jamboree was held.
His father said that the three were walking in single file on the public road, when the Education Ministry’s vehicle “came from nowhere and struck Jameel from behind, pitching him in a nearby trench.”
He alleged that the driver did not exit the car to lend assistance at the time of the incident, and it was left to Jameel’s two cousins and public spirited citizens to place the unconscious lad in the vehicle and get him to the Leonora Cottage Hospital.
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