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6-year-old stabbed in eye prepares for surgery in Trinidad
Naresh Ramotar, the six-year-old boy who was stabbed in the eye with a pencil, is currently in Trinidad and Tobago preparing for surgery.
According to the child’s aunt, Savitrie Benjamin, he is currently undergoing treatment for inflammation in the eye.
She noted that medical practitioners in the twin-island Republic have advised that things are going well so far and there is a good chance that the boy might regain his eyesight.
The injured boy: Naresh Ramotar
“They say that everything going well, and that even if is not to 100 percent, Naresh can begin to see again, so we’re very hopeful about that,” the woman said.
The Strathspey Primary School Grade One student was stabbed last week Monday by a classmate, who he usually complains, would bully him. Naresh’s mother, Nandani Ramotar, was at work when she received a call shortly after 14:00hrs, informing 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 mother recounted.
Ramotar told this newspaper that she was not prepared to risk her son’s wellbeing, and therefore took him to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation. She said that Medical Practitioners there were appalled at her son’s condition, and hinted that he needed to undergo surgery.
A surgery, however, was not done until several hours after Naresh was hospitalised. Mrs. Ramotar believes that this is the reason why her son’s eyesight deteriorated to the extent that overseas treatment had to be sought. Nonetheless, the child will undergo a second surgery within two weeks’ time.
The woman is still annoyed that even after several reports were made to the school’s administration, nothing has ever been done to discipline the errant child. 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.
Ramotar claims that nobody from the school or the Ministry of Education has visited or enquired about her son’s condition.
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