A seven-year-old St Paul’s Primary school student is being treated for injuries she sustained after she was hit down by a minibus transporting school children.
Christine Maria Melville of Pigeon Island Squatting Area East Coast Demerara was yesterday being operated on at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
According to the child’s mother, Ileen Goberdhan, she had just dropped her daughter at the pedestrian crossing at the school on the Plaisance Public Road. Goberdhan said that every day she leaves her daughter at the crossing along with other school children to cross the street.
She said that mere minute after reaching into work she received a call from a neighbour of the St Paul’s Primary School that her daughter was involved in an accident. The distressed mother was told that the bus had overtaken a vehicle and hit her daughter dragging young girl some distance.
The female driver of the bus immediately took the child to the hospital and was held by officers at the outpost this newspaper was told.
According to the child’s grandmother, Nazratoon Ali called Patsy, she received a call around 9 am yesterday informing her that her granddaughter was at the hospital. She said she rushed down to the hospital where she took over from Goberdhan who was too overcome to deal with the doctors.
Patsy said when she went into the emergency room to see her granddaughter, the child’s right “instep was digout is just de bone ya seeing” and there was “a hole in she knee”. The child also sustained head injuries, she said.
“She’s a brilliant lil child. She tell the doctor she age and she name and give them my phone number,” Patsy said. “The doctor said that is a serious something and they have to operate,” the grandmother said praising the doctors for being “really helpful”.
