Latest update April 17th, 2025 8:13 AM
GDF airlift severely burnt 6-year-old Tacama child to city
GDF ranks prepare to transport the burnt six-year-old to GPHC
Six-year-old Shonnella King, of Tacama Waterfront, who suffered severe burns about her body, was yesterday airlifted to Ogle Airport and immediately whisked away in an army ambulance to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, where she was admitted for treatment.
Reports are that the child was lighting a fire to roast corn when there was a flare-up that caused the flames to engulf the upper portion of her body.
At 15:00hrs yesterday, in rapid response to a call for assistance, which came from the army’s main training base at Tacama on the Berbice River, GDF personnel immediately took to the air via helicopter to provide Medivac services.
According to a GDF release last evening, “This response by the GDF continues its long and honourable tradition of service to citizens in every part of Guyana…The officers and ranks of the GDF are prayerful that Shonnella will respond positively to the treatment she receives and will soon be back home at the Tacama Waterfront.”
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