Burnt victim succumbs one week after

Mar 19, 2010 News

Twenty-seven year-old Deeraj Sanmogan, who was severely burnt after the fuel boat he was working on caught fire, has succumbed.
According to the man’s mother they received the news of his death at around 20:30 hours on Wednesday.
At the time, Sanmogan was receiving treatment at the Georgetown Public Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.
The dead man’s mother, Hemattie, told this newspaper that she never got the chance to find out from her son what really transpired on the vessel.
“We really didn’t want to fatigue he we say he woulda get better and tell we wha really happen…all he use to say was I get bun in de engine room,” the woman related.
She added that when she first saw her son he was so badly burnt that doctors at a private hospital told the family that there was nothing they could do for him. Hence he was taken to the GPHC.
The woman said when she saw her son only his penis and the bottom of his feet were not burnt.
She added that her son’s employer visited her and opted to stand the funeral expense but they declined to accept.
She explained that they are not in any way upset with their son’s employers, but according to their Hindu religion, his father must perform his final rites.
Meanwhile, the family is awaiting a post mortem examination after which the remains would be handed over for cremation.
Around 07:00 hours on Thursday March 11, the vessel on which Sanmogan was working, “Mother Ganga”, burst into flames while offloading fuel at one of the fuel stations in Bartica.
The flames caught on to Sanmogan’s clothes and he panicked and plunged into the river.
He was rescued by a passing speedboat and rushed to the Bartica Hospital from where he was transported to the city for further medical attention.
The manager of the fuel station, Paramdial Doobay, had told this newspaper that the two-man crew comprising the captain and Sanmogan had already discharged gasoline and had discharged half of the kerosene when tragedy struck.
According to Doobay, he was at the front of the fuel station and by the time he went to the back where the fuel was being offloaded, the vessel’s cabin was already on fire.
He said that he was told that the pump which was being used to offload the fuel had malfunctioned and Sanmogan was trying to rectify the problem when the fire started.

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