Nearly two weeks after 12-year-old Rehana Basdeo was hospitalized after being struck down by a speeding car on the Essequibo coast road while riding her bicycle she is recovering but suffering from memory loss.
Rehana, a student of Abram Zuil Secondary School, is currently hospitalized at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) Intensive Care Unit.
Stabroek News recently spoke with Rehana’s father, Ramesh Basdeo, for an update on her condition and was told that Rehana was improving, and that she was responding to her treatment but was experiencing memory gaps.
“The doctors said they are treating her but sometimes she knows, sometimes she doesn’t know you. She is not responding sometimes,” Basdeo said. On October 14th Basdeo was riding her bicycle to meet her father at a construction site. According to report, Rehana stopped in the vicinity of Good Intent to cross the road and was struck down by the speeding car. She was picked up and rushed to the Suddie Hospital by a passing bus accompanied by the driver of the car where she was admitted in the emergency section. Her parents, after learning about the accident, rushed to the hospital.
Doctors at the Suddie Hospital informed the family that due to the severity of Rehana’s injuries, she would have to be airlifted to Georgetown for critical medical attention. Though the medevac was supposed to have occurred at 8 pm it was done four hours later. Once in Georgetown, Rehana underwent a CT scan and it was found that she had a fractured skull.
A police statement at the time of the accident said that the driver of the car was arrested and that investigations were continuing.
