Three persons are still recovering at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) while a teenager was discharged yesterday following the head-on collision that occurred Monday morning at Long Creek on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway and claimed the lives of five.
Bibi Ghanie, granddaughter of two of the persons injured in the accident confirmed with Stabroek News yesterday that her grandmother, Roseann Bumbury, is recuperating in the female surgical ward of the GPH after undergoing surgery for a broken foot, while her grandfather, Aubrey Ghanie, is currently being monitored in the emergency ward suffering from a broken sternum and a punctured lung. Her niece, Ashana Ramsammy, the 11-year-old who suffered scratches above her eyes and hands was discharged yesterday afternoon.
Meanwhile, the fourth person who was injured in the accident, Asher Granum of Kwakwani is still critical at the GPH and his mother who wished for her name not to be mentioned has hopes that he will recover. The mother related that Grannum was going back to work in the gold field when the accident occurred.
The five dead persons were identified as 1) graduate senior mistress of Kwakwani Primary, Rushell Leacock-Jones; 2) her brother, Rehum Leacock also known as ‘Eddo’, 24, of Kwakwani, who was the driver of one of the vehicles; 3) Graduate Head of Department of Industrial Technology at the New Silvercity Secondary, Linden Dwaylon Farrell, and the driver of the other vehicle; 4) retired nurse, Uranie Hall; and 5) Clinton Patterson.
