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Phagwah Day accident leaves father of seven bedridden
– Driver of vehicle involved offered $20,000 compensation
A father of seven is hospitalized at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), nursing broken legs, and injuries to the left arm and neck after he was struck by a Hummer on Phagwah Day last.
Injured is 45-year-old Gavin Gordon, a farmer of Golden Fleece, West Coast Berbice.
According to the injured man’s wife, Maureen, she was at home when she received a call that her husband had met with an accident and that he was taken to the Fort Wellington Hospital.
Bedridden:
Gavin Gordon
Mrs. Gordon explained that when she went to the hospital, preparation was being made to transfer her husband to the GPHC for further medical intervention since his condition was beyond what doctors there could have handled at the Fort Wellington Hospital.
The woman explained that she was informed that her husband was walking on the Public Road when he was stuck by the vehicle which was driven by a 21-year-old Berbice resident.
The woman said that she met with her husband some three days after the accident, and at that time, he was unconscious. The father of seven is now stable but he is bedridden.
“He cannot move or walk,” his wife said. She stressed that since the accident, the driver of the vehicle offered her $20,000 to assist with transportation but the money has already been exhausted. Her husband is the sole breadwinner for the home.
The woman also added that doctors had requested that her husband do a CT-Scan to determine whether there was any injury to the brain but because of the lack of finances- he could not do the scan.
“My transportation bill is $9,100 per week and that is for me alone to visit him. I also have to buy things for him,” Mrs. Gordon said, adding that she has not seen or heard from the driver after he gave her the money.
It is unclear when the 45-year-old man will be discharged from the hospital. “I want justice for what has been done to my husband.”
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