Latest update May 22nd, 2026 12:38 AM
Toddler critical after falling down stairs
A four-year-old child is hospitalized at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) after she accidently fell down the steps at her Lot 133 Patentia Housing Scheme, West Bank Demerara (WBD) home.
Zaleema Mangar, a Patentia Nursery School student fell down the steps around 12:00hrs yesterday.
Mangar’s mother, Bibi told this publication that she was bathing her three children, age two, three and the injured toddler when the incident occurred.
“I was bathing them and she (Zaleema) tell me she feeling cold and she ask me to bathe her first and send her upstairs, so I bathe her and put her on the step and tell her to go upstairs,” the terrified mother recalled.
The toddler’s mother at GPHC yesterday.
She added that while bathing her two other children, “I hear a tumbling sound and then she start crying; so I rush out and pick her up and soak her skin and I take her upstairs. She tell me that her head and hand hurting and I tell her that I will mix some sugar water for her but she tell me she don’t want it and that she wants to sleep.”
According to the mother, she allowed little Zaleema to go and sleep but when she returned two minutes later to give her a painkiller she found the four-year-old in an abnormal position and she was not fully responsive.
“I took her to Best Hospital (West Demerara Regional Hospital) and they said she has head injuries and they bring her here (GPHC).”
Up to press time yesterday, the child was receiving treatment at the hospital’s Accident and Emergency Unit.
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