Despite being discharged a few weeks ago from the Georgetown Public Hospital, bedridden accident victim William Nurse remains at the hospital as he has no place to go.
Nurse, 53, and Lisa Khedoo, 37, were struck off a bicycle by a driver on August 30, of this year at Lamaha and East streets, Georgetown. Nurse sustained injuries to his spine, pelvis and ribs; he was also bleeding internally and had lacerations about his body.
When Stabroek News visited Nurse at the hospital yesterday he pleaded for assistance in getting out of the hospital despite his inability to move or do anything for himself. “Sis, I begging you, see what you can do for me because nobody ain’t even coming to see me and I can’t do nothing for myself,” he said. “Many days I don’t get nothing to eat. It ain’t easy in here.”
Efforts to contact his relatives yesterday proved futile.
This newspaper had previously reported that the motorcar, PNN 9 that was involved in the accident is a government-owned vehicle that is used to transport high-ranking officials. The driver had offered to compensate the victims but never returned after that first visit, Nurse confirmed.
Nurse’s reputed wife had told Stabroek News that after she received the call informing her of the incident she immediately rushed to the hospital where she learnt that Nurse and Khedoo had left Camp Street and were heading to the market when tragedy struck. She had said that based on what she understood the driver of the car lost control and hit the two persons off the bicycle. They were thrown some distance.
Traffic Officer of ‘A’ Division Ramesh Ashram had informed Stabroek News that the police were awaiting the discharge of the patients so that they can revisit the scene of the accident and collect statements from them.
Before the tragic incident, Nurse worked as the caretaker of the Queen’s College ground but he is of the belief that by now he has been replaced causing him to have nowhere to go since he lived on the premises.