Seven-year-old Christine Maria Melville’s dream of returning home will soon become a reality, as she is scheduled to do so on Friday.
On Monday, Christine underwent yet another surgery at the Georgetown Public Hospital, where she has been since March. This was one of the three surgeries on her legs, which were injured during the accident.
The student of St Paul’s Primary School was struck down by a bus transporting school children, after her mother, Ileen Goberdhan, had left her at the pedestrian crossing at her school at Plaisance Public Road.
Goberdhan said it was a mere minute after she got to work, that she received a call from a neighbour of the child’s school who told her that her daughter had been involved in an accident. Reports reaching the distressed woman were that the bus had overtaken a vehicle and hit her daughter, dragging the young girl for some time.
When Stabroek News visited the child yesterday, she was in joyous spirits, entertaining one of the new patients in her ward. She happily related that she is now able to walk a little and feels less pain in her legs.
