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Mar 18, 2018 News
By Malisa Playter – Harry
“I believe, I can walk again,” says Sohan Naraine well known as ‘Sir Sohan’, 61, of Lot 17 Second Street, Tain, Corentyne, Berbice.
Naraine, a former teacher who is now bound to a wheelchair was not always like that. It was a normal day, sometime in January 2014. He had just completed a session of private lessons with some of his students when he retreated to his home, in Lusignan, East Coast Demerara.
There, he carried out his routine of speaking with his guard at the gate and having dinner, a hot plate of “fish curry and rice” that he whipped up himself.
“I went to bed as normal but when I woke up around 1:00 am all I noticed was that I was tangled up in the net and was bleeding from my nose.” At that point, the retired teacher said he attempted to get up from his bed but he just couldn’t. He was paralysed on his entire right side; it was impossible for him to move his body.
Naraine, a father of two said that he began making sounds and hit on the wall several times to alert his guard who was downstairs. He eventually heard and made contact with the neighbour who later called Naraine’s son. When his son arrived, they had to break open the door to get into the house since the building was heavily grilled.
Naraine was rushed to the hospital where the doctors told him that he suffered a major stroke.
He said his problems did not end there. After he fell ill, he was faced with abuse by the very son, who took him to the hospital.
“My son start to beat up me; he beat me like a snake. He tie up my hand, tied up my foot, he put rope around my neck to kill me. But you know when I fell ill I couldn’t remember anything or anyone because stroke sometimes cause you to forget everything. But God is great,” the man cried while sitting in his wheelchair.
The tearful Naraine said that, it was a neighbour who felt sorry for him and helped him move to Berbice. When he came to Berbice, he lived alone at the house and up until today. He does everything for himself, despite the challenges.
“I cook, clean and wash for myself. I even bathe myself but I do not think, it would have been possible without the power of God”, Naraine proclaimed.
According to him, the only challenge that he has is to go places such as the clinic, and the shop on his own. He currently has a wheelchair that he received from Food for the Poor, through the St. Francis Community Developers NGO based in Berbice. Grateful for the piece of equipment to him, he added that it still is difficult since the chair is not collapsible. He is now seeking to have a mobilised wheelchair to assist him in moving about without the assistance of persons.
This, he said, will avoid him from being dependent on others. At present, friends and occasionally neighbours would visit Naraine when they can and help with whatever he has to do at home. A man, he calls ‘Sunil’ who was there helping Naraine fix a broken pipe began tending to the pensioner some two years ago.
“He was passing along my street and I called out to him to ask him to buy something for me at the shop and he did, without hesitation,” the former teacher revealed. ‘Sunil’ says after hearing his story, he felt sad and angry about the situation and vowed to always be of assistance to old man, “It na matter wat he call me fuh do something fu he, me got to come.”
Naraine is pleading with anyone who may be of help in acquiring a mobilised wheelchair to assist him on a daily basis. He can be contacted on telephone number 337-1206.
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