A 12-year-old student of Belladrum Secondary School was admitted to the Fort Wellington Hospital in an unconscious state after she was hit behind her neck by another student on Tuesday around midday.
Kennisha Bobb of Rosignol, West Bank Berbice was rushed to the hospital by teachers after they realized that the girl was not “responding.”
She told Stabroek News yesterday from her hospital bed that she had a headache and had bent her head on the desk to relax. Another student was making a lot of noise, she said, and she asked him to stop but he refused and she pushed him.
She said she rested her head on the desk again and he then “chopped” her (with the side of his hand) three times on her neck. The next thing she knew was that she was at the hospital and a lot of people were around her crying.
Her mother Keena Bobb said the vein around her daughter’s neck is black and blue and swollen from the hit. She is still crying out for pain around that area and on her head and shoulder. According to Bobb sometimes the girl is “up and about and other times she can hardly move.”
She said the doctor has ordered a scan to be done to know the extent of the injuries and the child might have to be transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Bobb said, “Thank God that she is here today because at first she would loss away [lose consciousness] sometimes. I thought I woulda lose her.”
She said, “I got a message that Kennisha got hit and she can’t talk and she is in the hospital. When I got there the doctor was holding her up and she looked lifeless.”
Her aunt, Sonia Blair told this newspaper that when they saw Kennisha’s condition they left and went to inform the boy’s guardians at Belladrum. By the time they returned the girl was responding but she was acting in a delirious manner.
“She was getting hot fever and she was saying a lot of things that did not make sense. She was calling out our dead relatives’ names and saying they were coming for her.
She was even trying to jump out the window and her feet had also started to get cold,” Blair said.
The girl only calmed down later that night after the doctor administered an injection.
Meanwhile, the boy’s guardians visited Kennisha at the hospital and expressed regrets at what had happened and they are hoping that she feels better.
