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Sep 02, 2016 News
Eleven-year-old Hema Singh is clinging to life, attached to a machine at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) after she was struck down by a car on the Canal Number One, West Bank Demerara Public Road last Saturday.
Singh also called “Amesha” of 19 Tenez Ferne, Canal Number One, West Bank Demerara, suffered a broken left leg and head injuries. Her condition has been listed as critical. She is a patient in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.
The accident occurred around 09:45 hrs on Saturday. The driver has been released on station bail.
According to information received, Singh was crossing the Canal Number One Public Road, when she was struck down by a car bearing registration number PPP 5344.
The child’s mother, Nalini Sukhu said that she sent her daughter to buy garlic from a grocery van that was passing on the public road when the accident occurred.
“I was sewing and when I see she (Hema) stopped the van, I continued sewing and all I hear was ‘blam’ and when I look up, I see a child in the air,” Sukhu recalled.
She said that when she rushed out, a neighbour had already removed her daughter from in front of the vehicle and soaked her head with water.
“The driver came out of the vehicle and was arguing with some boys who were asking him if he didn’t see the child,” the woman said.
The driver took Singh and her mother to the West Demerara Regional Hospital before she was eventually transferred to the GPHC.
Sukhu explained that at the scene of the accident she was informed by the driver of the grocery van, that her daughter needed more money to purchase the garlic, hence, she was returning home for the rest of the money when she was struck down.
The driver, according to Sukhu, claimed that the child was walking over the road, instead of running. However, the mother was informed by eyewitnesses that the driver was not paying attention.
At the hospital yesterday, the woman said that doctors have informed her that her daughter is stable but her condition is listed as critical.
“The doctor said that her brain is bleeding in several places and they have to wait until the swelling on her brain go down before they do any surgery,” the woman alleged.
She explained that the little girl would have started at Patentia Secondary School on Monday, but now she is hospitalized, and cannot even breathe on her own.
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