Kaieteur News

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Kaieteur News

Wednesday February 13, 2013

Three Rivers Kids’ Foundation aids in more treatment Another group of persons in dire need of treatment which is not available here in Guyana will be traveling to the Max Super Specialty Hospital in New Delhi, India on Friday (February 15) to be treated. The 11 patients will be staying in Toronto, Canada for two nights where they will attend a fundraising event before traveling on to India. These patients are Johnaton Sukhu, Alvin Ramkumar, Peter Charles, Annmarie Gomes, Johnaton Newton, Kumarie Khuserran, Tajpaul Persaud, Tana Nandalal, Adrian Persaud, Ciara Stanislaus, and one adult. The group will be receiving treatment for a variety of medical conditions. Five patients will undergo

open heart surgery, while two will be having eye surgeries and one brain and liver surgery. The others will be treated for kidney ailments and skin disease. They will spend three weeks in Delhi. This mission, like the others, is made possible through the initiative of Three Rivers Kids Foundation, a registered charitable organization in Toronto. According to a press release, 13 patients were scheduled to go on this mission. However, two patients - Farad Mohammed age three, and Pholmaitie Singh age seven, needed urgent medical attention and could not wait to travel with the group. Farad and Pholmaitie were sent to the Hospital on January 7. Both

Farad Mohammed and Pholmaitie Singh (L) en route to India last month children underwent open heart at Max Hospital. Mohammed, who underwent

Drunk driver crashes, escapes from hospital A burgundy-coloured motor car PLL 7034 owned by Nigel Hickel, of Patrick Dam, Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam, ended up in a trench on the Canefield Canje, Public Road, Berbice on Monday. The vehicle was driven by the owner ’s friend who claimed that he swerved from a school child and lost control of the vehicle. Witness to the accident said that the driver, identified as Omadatt Mohabir, 23, of Canefield, East Canje, Berbice, whom persons hardly know, seemed drunk and lost control of the motor car. He had to be assisted

from the car and later complained of pain in the chest. This caused him to be rushed to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital where the doctor recommended that he needed to be monitored for head injuries. While he was at the hospital under surveillance, Mohabir suddenly became aware of his condition and started to behave in a disorderly manner. He became abusive to the nurses and doctors on duty then ran out of the institution, and boarded a passing minibus.

This occurred at about 02:30hrs and Mohabir has not been seen since. At the scene, the owner of the car was heard using a series of expletives. He said that the driver took his car without his consent. However, people were heard saying that Mohabir would often be seen driving the car even with the owner in it. But the police say that they now have an interest. They say that it is an offence to fail to report an accident. They said that they were unaware of any accident. The car remained at the scene for hours.

a BT shunt, made a marvelous recovery, and will be returning to Guyana on

February 17. However, little Pholmaitie Singh was not that lucky. She died on February 4 at age seven, weighing 25 pounds. This was Pholmaitie’s third open heart surgery. She was suffering from a very complex form of congenital heart disease - Tetralogy of Fallot and pulmonary Atresia. She underwent a very high risk, total correction surgery on January 22. Prior to this, these patients had frequented the Georgetown Hospital for a few months. “The projected cost for this mission for all 13 patients is US$166,500, including return airfares for all the patients and their mothers,” the press release added. Since 2005, the Three Rivers Kids Foundation has

successfully helped over 100 patients from Guyana obtain life-saving surgery in India. “The Foundation would like to thank all those who donated time and money to make this possible. In particular, we would like to thank the Ministry of Health of Guyana, Stephanie Green from Caribbean Airways in Georgetown and Mr. Bob Borrow, also sincere gratitude also to all our Canadian donors. Those interested in making contact with the Three Rivers Kids Foundation via its Guyana office which is located at Gandhi Youth Organisation Building, Woolford Avenue, Georgetown, can do so on telephone number 225 7758, or its Website at www . hreeriverskidsfoundation.org

Accused child killer appears in Linden court

Rawle Samuels, the man accused of stabbing fouryear-old Jamal Naranjan to death on Wednesday last, yesterday made an appearance at the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court in front of presiding Magistrate Ann McLennan The diminutive Samuels appeared briefly in the dock, before Magistrate McLennan adjourned the case to February 27. The man was neatly dressed, with his locks shorn and a blank look on his face. After the adjournment, Neisha Naranjan, mother of the now deceased Jamal Naranjan who had been

Murder accused Rawle Samuels sitting in the courtroom, ran out of the building sobbing. In the courtyard there was even more drama, as the relatives of both Samuels and Naranjan engaged in a fiery verbal battle, as Samuels was whisked away by Police escort. During the heated exchange, a relative of Samuels was overheard shouting to Naranjan, “You know he de violent, yet you bail he.” According to reports, the accused was last year charged with wounding a female with whom he shared a relationship. The man had reportedly broken the woman’s jaw with a hammer. Several residents who had turned up at the court to follow the proceedings, dispersed immediately after Samuels had exited the compound. The small community of Buck Hill on Wismar was last Wednesday rocked by the brutal murder of Jamal Naranjan a four–year-old Nursery School child, who was stabbed repeatedly about the body, allegedly by Samuels. The man had reportedly moments earlier raped a young female

at the house where she resided with the child’s mother, Neisha Naranjan. It was reported that the child had just returned home from school, when he came under attack from the man, with whom his mother shared a relationship. That relation was severed five days prior to the incident, Kaieteur News understands. A woman who said she was going down the hill, on the day of the incident shortly before the fatal stabbing, said she happened to look back and saw the man with a long knife in his hand chasing the young woman he allegedly sexually assaulted. After he did not catch her, he snatched the little boy (Jamal) and hoisted him on his shoulder. The woman, who had in the meantime made her way to the Wismar Police Station, later told media operatives that she had seen Samuels making ‘cuffing motions’, while the child’s legs were kicking in the air, as he lay on the ground. The child was later taken to the Linden Hospital Complex with multiple stab wounds, including one to his abdomen from where his intestines protruded. He later died at the institution. Irate residents in light of the incident condemned ranks at the Wismar Police Station, for the tardy manner with which they responded to reports of what was transpiring on Buck Hill, even before the child was killed. The Wismar Police Station is a stone’s throw away, or less than ten-minute walk from where the incident occurred Many residents are of the view that the child’s life could have been saved, had the police acted promptly and diligently.


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