-knows that daughter died
Zaitoon Hoosein, 39, of Adelphi, East Canje has started to remember that she was involved in an accident with former Commissioner of Police, Henry Greene on September 7.
The woman who suffered head and spinal injuries and is unable to walk had lost her memory of the ordeal. She only learnt two days ago that her daughter, Safiya Jamaluddin, 10, was killed in the accident.
Relatives said they were advised to delay breaking the news to her due to the nature of her condition. They told this newspaper that it seemed as though she had suspected because she told them “something happen and ayo don’t want to tell me.”
After keeping it from her for almost one month and inventing one excuse after the other whenever she asked for the child, her parents finally told her on Tuesday evening. She cried a lot after but has accepted the news.
Hoosein is currently recuperating at her parents’ home at Fyrish, Corentyne. She has started to improve and can now sit up on her own. A scan proved that she is also suffering “bleeding” in the head. She also has a “lump” on her right cheek.
She was also distressed about her condition and said all she wanted was to “get back good how me went.” She said quite positively too that “me gat to feel good.”
She told this newspaper that she could remember when a vehicle driven by a “fat man” drove into their path.
She said her brother-in-law, Raheem Kaleem, 45, of Canefield, East Canje drove his AT 192 Carina motorcar down to the parapet to avoid the accident but Greene’s SUV, PLL 7411 still crashed into it.
After that she lost consciousness and while being treated at the hospital heard “people saying that the man [Greene] dead.”
Her mother, Jaitoon Neisha told this newspaper that she took her to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) on Monday for follow-up treatment.
She paid the taxi “$11,000 just for one side fare” to take her daughter to the GPH and had to pay $10,000 to go back home. The woman has two more appointments for the month to see the doctors for her head and the spinal injuries.
Meanwhile, Zaitoon at first could not understand what was wrong with her and felt that she “fall sick just so.” She also felt that she was not seeing her daughter because “she staying with she father to go to school.”
Hoosein and her daughter were travelling to Uitvlugt along with Kaleem, his wife, Shamoon and their sons, Reeaz and Fawaaz when the accident occurred.
They were heading west along the road around 9.10 am when the white SUV, PLL 7411, driven by Greene, 58, and travelling in the opposite direction, veered suddenly into their path.
According to police, after Greene collided with the car, his vehicle then hit a Bakewell truck, GJJ 9067, which was travelling behind the car.
Reports are that the car spun around and ended up on the parapet.
Persons from all three vehicles were pulled from the wreckage and rushed to the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH), where Greene and the child were pronounced dead on arrival. The injured were transferred to the GPH.
Kaleem, a mechanic, spent 15 days in the High Dependency Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital. He sustained broken legs, a broken right hand and broken shoulders and he had to undergo surgeries.
“Plates” had to be placed in his shoulders. He also sustained injuries to his abdominal area and he is currently having difficulty breathing.
He is still experiencing severe pain.
Fawaaz suffered a broken right leg and “steel” had to be placed in it, while Reeaz’s nose was fractured. Shamoon was lucky to have escaped without any broken bones but later she started having intense pain about her body.
