Nandanie Singh, the woman whose baby died in a boat accident in the Cuyuni River on Sunday morning, was up to last night still in the Georgetown Public Hospital. But her husband George Simmons said she was looking as though she was coming around.
The woman was being treated for severe head injuries after the boat that she, her baby daughter and her husband George were travelling in collided with another some distance from Aranka. The nine-month-old girl, Sara Simmons, died instantly.
The man explained to this newspaper that he and his wife were seated in the last row of the boat and he opted to jump over to the back to assist the captain in bailing some water. He said after he was finished with the bailing, he turned around and saw another boat travelling in their path.
Simmons said when he regained consciousness two passengers of the boat were pulling him from the water into the boat into the boat.
The captain of the other boat assisted the injured persons over into his boat which then transported the group to the Bartica Hospital where his wife sought medical attention. She later had to be transferred to the GPH.
It was reported that she was taken to the St Joseph Mercy Hospital to have a CT scan done.
