Minutes after a Better Hope teen tried to avoid an argument at a community dance last evening he was slashed to the neck with a broken bottle.
Sachin Singh, 19, of Lot 6 Better Hope, East Coast Demerara was being treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) up to press time. The youngster, relatives said, had lost a lot of blood and was in a serious condition.
Singh, a female friend who was with him at the time explained, had been dancing when he was approached by a drunken cousin. The cousin, she said, tried several times to start an argument with the injured teen.
“He [Singh] de sober so he na tek on he cousin and he try to push he away and so,” she recalled, “and then this boy just bus’ a bottle and slash he neck with it.”
After Singh was wounded, she related, he started bleeding heavily and this caused several persons in the immediate area to panic. However, another relative managed to call a taxi and the teen was rushed to the GPHC.
When Singh arrived at the medical institution shortly after 8 pm he was clutching a blood soaked t-shirt to the wound on his neck. He was immediately placed in a wheelchair and taken to the nurse on duty at the Accident and Emergency Unit.
After his wound was examined Singh was placed in the waiting room to wait his turn to see the doctor. Just before 9 pm when this newspaper spoke with his mother, Nanda, she said that he had just been wheeled in to the doctor for treatment.
“I na really know yet if they going to admit him,” Nanda said, “but the cut deep and it like about 3 inches long or so.”
Singh, according to her, was conscious when he was taken in to see the doctor but she was told that he was in a serious condition because of the amount of blood he had lost.
