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Injured Essequibo teen to lose remaining toe

Jan 08, 2013 News

 

Doctors working on 18-year-old Fernando Fredericks’s left foot are being forced to amputate the remaining toe because of two broken bones, the teen’s mother related. The surgery is scheduled for today.
Fredericks lost four toes from his left foot on Boxing Day. He was standing alongside a bush shed at the Anna Regina Car Park when a utility pole belonging to Guyana Power and Light fell during a freak storm. It was shortly after 02:00 hours.
He was a patient at the Suddie Public Hospital until last week when his mother, Anita Fredericks, took her son’s discharge and transferred him to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Doctors at the GPHC have since reversed what was a rapidly deteriorating situation.
Fernando Fredericks, of Maria’s Lodge, is an excavator operator.
Reports of the incident were made to both the police station at Anna Regina and to members of the Guyana Power and Light.
A letter was recently delivered to senior officers of GPL but no response has been had as yet, Mrs. Fredericks added.
Anita Fredericks, who said that her son would be out of work for the next year, is lobbying for some form of financial compensation for her son’s injury.

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