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60-year-old falls through school flooring
The injured woman at the GPHC
A 60-year-old grandmother from 46 B Friendship, East Bank Demerara, was yesterday rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital after she fell through the flooring of the Friendship Secondary.
The woman, Frances London, told Kaieteur News, yesterday, that she had gone to the school to attend a Parent-teacher Association meeting.
London said that she arrived at the school around 13:00hrs and saw a vacant bench and was approaching it when everything came caving.
The injured woman, who is also a diabetic, said that she heard “a cracking sound and before I know it I lying face down on the bottom flat”.
Eyewitnesses who were at the scene all became hysterical and frantically rushed to the woman’s assistance.
According to one of the eyewitnesses, the woman calmly walked into the room and said good afternoon to every one and the next thing they heard was a crashing sound.
The hole in the floor through which London fell.
Upon looking back they noticed a hole in the flooring and the woman was lying face down below.
One of the teachers contacted London’s family who came to the school and promptly rushed her to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
The woman sustained a broken right leg and abrasions about the body.
Relatives who were at the hospital were into total amazement that the flooring could have been rotten.
The woman’s daughter, Jennifer Boyce, said that if a child had fallen through the roof, the child would have definitely died or would have been seriously injured.
Another relative lamented the fact that the woman would not even be compensated because she is neither a teacher nor student.
The woman was released late yesterday afternoon from the hospital.
Parents said they have been airing their concerns over recent time about the deplorable conditions at the school. But their complaints have fallen on deaf ears.
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