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Sep 15, 2009 News
“I’m asking everybody to pray for my grandson,” said Eunice Wharton yesterday as persons flocked to the Intensive Care Unit to support relatives of accident victim, 19- year-old Omarie Wharton, a mason by profession.
The teen described as ‘one of a kind,’ ‘ever willing’ and ‘one who lights up a room’ lost consciousness following an accident and has been given a 50/50 chance of recovery by medical professionals.
A pedal cyclist at the time, on Sunday at about 19:20hrs, Wharton was rushed to the Accident and Emergency Unit of the GPHC after being struck by a Toyota Rav 4.
According to the official hospital report, the resident of lot 227 Grove Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, sustained head and other injuries, specifically to his left shoulder.
Yesterday a broken-hearted Eunice Wharton the teen’s grandmother told Kaieteur News that he departed her Grove home on Sunday morning to visit with his cousins in Friendship as a regular practice.
Never did she envisage that she would be visiting the hospital later that day to see him fighting for his life.
“I get a call that he was in an accident and I rush to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre where they performed first aid on he and then they rush he to the Georgetown Hospital,” the woman recalled.
The driver is in custody, and pending the youth’s recovery, charges will be laid. Unsure of how her grandson’s health will turn out she said “we know that the driver who hit him is in custody but we are hoping for the best and that my grandson would recover.”
The teen’s grandmother said she is heartened by the support that the driver’s relatives have been giving. One of the offers has been for the teen to be moved to a private hospital but that is not an option that the teen’s relatives are focused on at present.
With downcast eyes after visiting the young man yesterday she relayed the news from the doctors that “they say he got brain damage.”
Testimony to his popularity was the fact that at every visiting hour session persons flocked in their numbers to have a glimpse of the “jovial, friendly warm-hearted” Wharton, whom many are in disbelief that he is in as critical as he is.
The grandmother said based on reports, Wharton was in a group riding home when the driver of the Rav 4 in a bid to overtake another vehicle swerved and hit him from behind. “He was hit so hard that he fling-up in the air with the bicycle and landed flush on he head, but thank God he landed on the parapet or I would have had a grandson. Now all we can do is pray.”
Lawrence Gordon, a friend of the injured teen, had told Kaieteur News that he was riding behind Wharton when the driver in an attempt to overtake another lost control, and reportedly struck Wharton, who was flung several feet into the air before landing on the parapet.
The pickup ended up hanging over the side of a koker. Wharton’s bicycle and cellular phone remain missing.
His mother Wynette Alli was among the persons who visited yesterday. She described her son as loved by all in the community. This publication was on hand yesterday as smiling faces turned to that of doubt and disbelief and some eyes welled up with water with every visit. The teen’s mother is also asking the public to pray for a miracle.
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