Latest update December 23rd, 2024 3:40 AM
Former prisoner left paralysed
…authorities decline to discuss compensation
Vishal Ramlall
Fed-up being bed-ridden and realizing that there might be little or no hope of ever walking again, Vishal Ramlall, who was involved in an accident on the Essequibo Coast, recently, opted for his discharge from the Suddie Public Hospital on Monday last.
Ramlall said that he was tired of being bedridden and opted to be released into his mother, Bibi Zamin’s custody.
Ramlall was discharged from the Suddie Public Hospital, after he was further discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital, on Monday. He was a patient at the Georgetown Hospital for three weeks.
At the time of the accident, which occurred at Annandale, on the Essequibo Coast, Ramlall was in the custody of the prison authorities having been arrested and remanded on armed robbery and rape charges, with both having since been discharged.
According to an eyewitness report on June 22, around 7:30am, Ramlall and five other prisoners were being escorted by the police to the Adventure Ferry Stelling when the accident occurred. The report further stated that one of the vehicles escorting the prisoners slammed into the back of an army vehicle that was also escorting the prisoners. As a result of the crash, the five prisoners who were seated at the back of the van were thrown out of the vehicle. Ramlall, and murder accused, Jaianti Lall, were the most seriously hurt.
Lall sustained a broken right leg and now has steel in it. In court he had to be assisted and had to be seated when his case was called.
Ramlall is paralyzed from the waist down. He is however optimistic of walking again. At his home, on Wednesday, he was in very high spirits, sitting on his bed.
When asked how he was feeling he pointed to his abdomen and said he was experiencing excruciating pains. He also has bedsores.
He said that during the past few nights he barely slept because of the continuous abdominal pains.
His mother, Zamin, a single parent, expressed her frustration about not receiving any compensation or even hearing from the law enforcement authorities to date. She said she is poor and is not healthy to work.
Miss Zamin said that prior to her son’s incarceration she depended solely on him for all her financial support. Now that her son’s condition has deteriorated her primary source of income is minimal. It is now the monthly stipend she receives in the form of public assistance.
Ramlall has an 11-year-old brother, Junior.
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