Nigel Hughes stable at CHI after heart attack

Mar 19, 2013 News

Alliance for Change Chairman and Prominent Attorney at law, Nigel Hughes, remains in a stable condition at the Caribbean Heart Institute, in the Intensive Care Unit. A press statement from his wife, Member of Parliament Cathy Hughes, yesterday expressed thanks to the President Donald Ramotar, Minister of Health Dr Bheri Ramsarran “and his able team.”
Mrs Hughes also thanked Roraima Airways Capt. Gerry Gouveia who arranged to bring Hughes to the city and hospital where he is “under the excellent care of Dr. Carpen and his highly efficient team.”

Attorney at law, Nigel Hughes

According to Mrs. Hughes, the entire family, has been overwhelmed by the tremendous outpouring of the kind concern, support and caring from so many persons, from all walks of life and from all over the country.
She said that they deeply appreciate these sentiments and know that it will inspire her husband to overcome this challenge successfully and continue his dream of helping to make a difference in the lives of the least of his countrymen, a vocation he considers his deep civic responsibility as a citizen.
She noted that he was responding satisfactorily to the excellent medical attention he is receiving and doctors are monitoring his progress. The lawyer was flown to the city early Sunday morning after he suffered a heart attack. Hughes was at the time in the community of Aishalton, Region Nine after visiting displaced miners at Marudi. Reports are that the medical tests revealed a significant blockage in his Right Coronary Artery.
Local doctors were in touch with cardiologists in two Caribbean islands and they have agreed that a surgical procedure to clear the blockage is necessary. They have taken into account his medical history.
Meanwhile the Kissoon/Jagdeo libel case was adjourned yesterday in light of Hughes’ hospitalization . Hughes is the lawyer for defendants Fredrick Kissoon, Kaieteur News Publisher Glen Lall and Editor- in- Chief Adam Harris.
Presiding Judge Brassington Reynolds adjourned the case of former President Bharrat Jagdeo suing the defendants for $10 million over one of Kissoon’s daily columns which called the former President an “ideological racist”.
The adjournment came after lawyers Khemraj Ramjattan and Christopher Ram who held for the ailing Hughes, requested it. The matter is expected to conclude on April 5.
The time given would allow Hughes to tend to his health. He will then say whether he is ready to continue the case. Lawyer for the plaintiff, Bernard De Santos, had no objection to the request.