Latest update December 19th, 2024 3:22 AM
Single and unemployed mother seeks financial aid for sick son
The injured Lakeram Persaud
A single mother is appealing to the public for financial aid to save her 20-year-old son who is hospitalized at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) for multiple injuries he sustained during an accident on Valentine’s Day.
Injured is Lakeram Persaud of 5 Strand, New Amsterdam, Corentyne, Berbice.
According to information, Lakeram was heading home on his motorcycle when he was struck down in front of the New Amsterdam Hospital on February 13 last.
Lakeram, a sales representative cannot recall what exactly happened. He said that at the time of the accident, he and a police officer on motorcycle were the only ones on the road, heading in the same direction.
The 20-year-old said all he could recall was feeling a “hard hit” behind his head. The next thing he remembered was waking up in the hospital. No one was arrested for the accident and no one reportedly saw what happened.
Lakeram sustained broken ribs, a punctured lung, a fractured shoulder and injuries to the spine.
The man’s mother, Jean Persaud, said that her son is in pain daily and that no arrest has been made. She claimed that her son told her that he and the policeman were riding together when the accident occurred but the policeman is claiming that he did not see anything.
A devastated Persaud said that she was recently told by a doctor that her son needs “some kind of equipment which is available in Trinidad and Tobago” for US$7000.
“The doctor is very rude. We are poor people; we don’t have all that money I am asking my family for help and my son’s uncle wants a number to talk with the doctor but he refused to give it. He does not understand the situation,” Persaud said.
The woman added that she and her older son have to travel from Berbice to Georgetown on a daily basis and that alone is an expense to her.
A source from the GPHC said that the equipment required to treat Lakeram for the spinal injury is not available at the hospital, hence the family has been instructed to purchase it.
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