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May 15, 2014 News
The parents of six-year-old Naresh Ramotar are extremely worried that their son might never be able to see from his left eye again.
The grade one, Strathspey Primary School student was reportedly stabbed last Monday by a classmate, whom he complained would usually bully him.
According to the injured child’s mother, Nandani Ramotar, she was at work when she received a call shortly after 14:00hrs from someone who informed her that her son had been stabbed.
Ramotar recalled that she was in panic mode when she got to the school, and only thought of rushing her child to the doctor.
However, health officials within the village advised that nothing serious was wrong with her son, and that he should be taken home to rest.
“I took he to the clinic and so, and even though the white thing in his eyes de leaking out, everybody tell me that nothing serious didn’t happen to me son.”
The woman told this newspaper that she was not prepared to risk her son’s wellbeing, and therefore took him to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). She said that medical practitioners there were appalled at her son’s condition, and hinted that he needed to undergo surgery.
“I got to know that me son needed to do a surgery, but even de people at the hospital did giving me the royal runaround. Naresh was hospitalized yes, but I had to practically beg till they decide that they would take my child in for surgery,” Ramotar said.
Little Naresh underwent a surgical procedure yesterday, and is currently recovering in the hospital’s Paediatric Ward.
However, Ramotar said that doctors aren’t too hopeful that the child might regain his eyesight.
“They say we gah wait for a while…probably a few weeks, a few months, or even a year. The doctors ain’t sure wha gon happen with my son. We just got to wait and see how it goes and how Naresh recovers.”
Meanwhile, Naresh’s mother is highly upset at the fact that her son was injured by a bully who he would always complain about.
“For weeks now, my son does complain that this child does trouble he. Naresh come home upset many times, and say that this li’l boy does take away he money and pencil and so.”
The crying woman noted that she had always been glad of the fact that instead of fighting, her son would come to her with his problems. As such, she would take his worries to authorities at his school.
“My son is very quiet. He is not de fighting type, so he would come and complain to me. He wouldn’t try to fight back or anything like that. That is why whenever he come to me with he problems, I would go talk to the teachers and so at the school,” Nandani Ramotar told Kaieteur News.
She noted however, that no action was ever taken to discipline the errant the child.
“After so many complaints and pleading to them, nobody took any kind of action to ensure that my son isn’t bullied suh all the time. They leave it to get to this stage. This is wha this situation end up to. My son is suffering,” Mrs. Ramotar said.
She believes that complaints regarding violence and bullyism in schools should be acted upon promptly, so that it does not escalate into serious situations, as in the case of her son.
“We seen so many ah these things happening, and now my poor son is victim. All I can do now is pray, because I can’t send a child to jail.”
Ramotar is especially annoyed at the fact that nobody from the school or the Ministry of Education has visited the hospital or enquired about her son’s condition.
She added, “Not only that, the people from the school took too long to look after my child. It could have been worse. My child had to go through all of this pain, and might probably never see again, and I’m sure nothing would ever be done about it…but, I don’t plan on letting it go, something has to be done. My son has to get some form of compensation. He went through too much.”
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