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Sameer Insanali at the GPHC
The Easter holidays have come and gone and everything has gone back to normalcy in Guyana. Many families were seen celebrating the joyous occasion with little children flying their kites high in the air while youths found themselves at a number of sporting activities and parties.
But all has not returned to normalcy for the Alladeen and Insanali families who hail from Number 70 Village, Corentyne, Berbice.
Fourteen-year-old Sameer Insanali flew into Guyana with his two siblings, parents and grandparents to spend the Easter vacation with their relatives in Berbice. In the end the family got more than it bargained for.
On Easter Monday morning, Sameer was standing in the corner of the road with his bicycle at Number 70 Village when a white car overtook another vehicle at a fast rate and struck him.
Kaieteur News understands that the motor-car, which was identified as a white Toyota with license plate number PHH 9040 is currently lodged at the Springlands Police Station, Berbice.
It was also reported that the vehicle belongs to a police rank.
Sameer and his bicycle were hurled into the air and landed some distance from where he was standing. He reportedly landed with his head onto the road. His mother, Ruksana Alladeen, who was in her relatives’ yard, heard the screech of brakes and thought that a vehicle had collided with another.
She immediately turned her attention toward the sound and saw her teenaged son “flying in the air with his bicycle following”.
Alladeen stated that the car continued on its journey failing to stop or slow down. Her husband ran out of the yard and other relatives rushed to the aid of Sameer who was in an unconscious state.
Sameer’s father ended in the middle of the road frantically trying to flag down passing vehicles but these refused to stop to render assistance. Some slowed down to survey the damages and according to Insanali, they refused to carry her son because “they didn’t want blood in their cars”.
This publication understands that one car passed the scene and then stopped, reversed and offered assistance to the distraught family by taking Sameer to the Skeldon Hospital. The injured lad was transferred to the New Amsterdam Hospital then to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) because the two hospitals in Berbice “did not have the facilities necessary for Sameer’s treatment”.
Sameer who is currently a patient of the High Dependency Unit (HDU) at the GPHC, according to his mother, suffered a fractured skull (behind his left ear), swelling in his brain, blood accumulation in his head and internal bleeding.
He has lacerations on his face, legs and arms, a broken tooth and his hips are also broken.
Alladeen told Kaieteur News that her son was slipping in and out of consciousness and she is waiting to have Sameer flown out to the USA for urgent medical treatment which she feels would be better to access there.
According to reports he is likely to be flown out today.
Alladeen’s aunt, Zalina Deen, told this newspaper that she was surprised at the way Guyanese operate in this society because it is supposed to be one of the most hospitable countries in the Caribbean.
Deen also stated “ Why would people want to come back home (Guyana) when they can’t walk on the streets properly, they can’t go out anywhere because they are robbed, they can’t sleep in their houses peacefully and can’t remain at home because of security purposes?”
She added, “This is the first time Sameer has been here to Guyana. He will never want to come back…How can someone be so cruel and heartless to hit down a child and not even stop? In America, if you hit a dog or animal, you stop to ascertain the damage.”
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