A family of five from Mahaica Creek was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday and they have been admitted after suffering the effects of food poisoning. Two are said to be in a critical condition.
Critical are 42-year-old Sukhdeo Dharamdat, known as Tony, and his son 17-year-old Chaitram Dharamdat, known as Satesh.
The man’s other two children, 15-year-old Hemwattie Dharamdat and 13-year-old Bhunwaneshari Dharamdat along with his wife, 40-year-old Nandranie Sukhdeo are patients of the Female Surgical Ward and are reportedly in a more stable condition.
When this newspaper spoke to the youngest child, she indicated that they had eaten hassar curry and rice for dinner the previous night and about half an hour later, she and her family started to feel sick.
“Everybody start get upset and start vomit with belly pain and my brother get cramps,” the girl said from her hospital bed.
She stated that her brother then placed a call to a neighbour who came and assisted in transporting them all to the Mahaicony Hospital by boat. She said from there, they were transported to the GPH.
Meanwhile, her mother, who is stationed just obliquely across from her, was unable to speak but cried out loudly for belly aches.
The 15-year-old was admitted to the Female Medical Ward and said she too is very weak.
She cried out for pain in the arm from which she had taken saline.
Stabroek News was unable to visit the male patients as visiting hours in that ward were over.
