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Jul 22, 2011 News
Doctors at the Georgetown Hospital were up to press time closely monitoring ten-year-old Shawn Archibald’s condition in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
Archibald and his two siblings, Jamacie and Tatianna, were involved in Monday’s tragic accident on Homestretch Avenue which claimed the lives of five people, including an eight-year-old.
When Kaieteur News visited the young child yesterday, his mother Shirley Richards explained that he had been moved from the Pediatric unit after his condition worsened. The woman said that doctors consequently suspended a surgery.
Kaieteur News was told that the child is non-responsive and is currently hooked up to machines helping him to breathe.
His mother looked visibly exhausted as she moved between the pediatric ward and ICU caring for her offspring.
The woman’s three-year-old daughter Tatianna is in the pediatric ward, nursing injuries to the neck, feet and hands.
According to the mother, the little girl’s condition is steadily improving, while her older sister has been released from the hospital.
Kaieteur News understands that the child, along with his siblings, would normally go to their aunt’s residence in Sophia and return home to Tucshen, East Bank Essequibo home.
The death toll for the Homestretch Avenue accident rose to five on Tuesday after 17-year-old Erica La Cruz succumbed to head and internal injuries at the Georgetown Hospital
Those killed in the accident were Headmistress Coretta Benjamin, 40, her eight-year-old daughter, Crazel Paul, both of Lot 704 ‘B’ Field, Sophia; Elron Peter Mc Clennon, 29, also of ‘B’ Field, Sophia; Junior Duncan, 47, of ‘A’ Field Sophia and 17-year old Erica La Cruz, also of ‘A’ Field, Sophia.
Meanwhile, the driver of the minibus, Jermaine Jackson, was yesterday slapped with five counts of causing death by dangerous driving.
He has been remanded to prison until September 9.
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