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Police officer succumbs three weeks after accident
Dead: Police Sergeant Dwarka Persaud.
After clinging to life for more than three weeks in the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), 52 year-old Police Sergeant Dwarka Persaud succumbed to injuries which he sustained in an accident.
Reports are that Persaud died around midnight on Monday while receiving treatment at the GPHC’s Intensive Care Unit.
According to the dead man’s wife, Meenawattie Persaud, her husband was struck by a disposal truck on August 1, last.
The woman told this newspaper her husband had his left leg crushed by the truck while walking along Garnett Street and Vlissengen Road.
The woman said she was in Essequibo attending a religious function when the accident occurred.
“I went up to Essequibo and I call him and told him to come but he said he didn’t want to miss a training which he was doing and the next day he called and asked me to travel since he was involved in an accident and hospitalized.”
Mrs. Persaud said that after four surgeries, the last being last week Thursday, her husband took a turn for the worse.
“After the accident the entire leg was crushed and he had three surgeries and during the last surgery they amputated the leg…the day after that he got worse and was on the life support machine until he died,” Mrs. Persaud related. She said she received the news of his death sometime after midnight on Monday.
She, however, commended the doctors who took care of her husband noting that they did all they could, but she opined that her husband’s death was compounded by diabetes, adding that since his hospitalization her husband received a total of some fourteen units of blood.
Meanwhile, the driver involved in the accident was arrested and subsequently released on station bail.
Persaud was last stationed at the Criminal Investigation Department, Eve Leary, and at the time of his accident he was participating in the Police Prosecutors’ course. Persaud had served the Guyana Police Force for the past 18 years.
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