There was an uproar in the Emergency Room of the Georgetown Public Hospital on Thursday night when a Kuru Kuru man with a gaping head wound, which was infested with worms and had a foul scent, was taken to seek medical attention.
The stench of Roy De Freitas’s wound was so vile, people who were there to seek medical attention had to rush outside and a number of them vomited. Hospital staff had to quickly distribute nose masks to offer relief.
De Freitas, 38, of Kuru Kuru, Linden/Soesdyke Highway is lucky to be alive after he was badly beaten, his relatives said. He had managed to crawl into an unused house where he remained until he was found one week later. His face revealed the brutality of the attack.
At the hospital on Thursday night, patients braved the rain and sat outside the building. Most of the hospital staff in the Emergency Room were wearing face masks. The injured man was lying on a stretcher in the corner of the Emergency Room’s waiting area with most of his lower body exposed. The festering wound on his head was open and he was receiving a bottle of saline.
His sister, Noreen told this newspaper that last Tuesday they received information that he had been beaten by four men, but when they travelled to the community, he could not be found. De Freitas lived alone.
She said that a woman who had employed her brother to weed subsequently called to tell them she had found him in a house in Kuru Kuru. His relatives returned for him but could not get a vehicle to transport him to Georgetown to seek medical attention, because of the state he was in.
With the help of a friend, she added, they were able to solicit the help of the army which made one of its vehicles available.
Noreen said she was clueless as to who might have beaten brother, adding that the doctors told her they would take care of him until he was well.
“The doctor told me that he has never seen anything like this before but he said that he will take care of him,” she said.
De Freitas was later admitted to the open ward of the medical institution.
