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Clive Atwell completes successful neurosurgical surgery at Brooklyn USA hospital

Aug 19, 2016 Sports

Following months of anxiety where he was frantically attempting to accrue enough funds to offset the astronomical costs for a neurosurgical surgery, Guyana’s multiple boxing champion and world rater, Clive Atwell, has successfully completed the procedure at the Kingsbrook Hospital, Brooklyn NY yesterday morning.
The process was facilitated by a group of concerned Guyanese including Proprietor of the Payless Variety Store, Joseph Ramkumar, Linden ‘Jumbie’ Jones, Rayan Tiwari, Leslie Blacks, Eugene Noel, Carlos Prowell, Gwen Williams and Sports Journalist, Sean Devers.
Three members of that group ‘Jumbie’ Jones, Tiwari and Blacks visited Kaieteur News’ Saffon Street office and informed that the world rated pugilist who arrived in the USA on July 1, has since completed corrective surgery at the USA medical institution and is resting comfortably; the operating surgeon was Dr. Chin. Blacks said that the surgery was necessary to replace a plate in Atwell’s head following an earlier procedure performed at a local hospital. Kaieteur Sport was informed then that the first surgery was meant to stem the bleeding in Atwell’s brain after he was stopped by Dexter Gonsalves in a fight for the WBC Fecarbox Lightweight title at the Giftland Mall, October 24 last year. The second procedure was necessary to repair additional injury to Atwell’s head.
Quizzed on the cost of the procedure, Jones would only say that it was prohibitive. He said that Atwell received assistance from the (Guyanese) corporate community, other conscientious locals as well as those from the (USA) Diaspora.
“Clive is very grateful and has intimated deep regards for the assistance received,” Blacks informed. He also said that though he remains hospitalized, Atwell’s faculties are intact and he is engaging in small talk with his family members who have gone to visit him. He is expected to be discharged within a few days.
Meanwhile, Jones has issued special thanks on behalf of Atwell to the local donors. He also singled out Director of Youth and Sports, Christopher Jones, who has been a key figure in Atwell’s battle.
Other individuals and corporations coming in for high praise were Bishop G. Spencer and the Methodist Church Guyana District, Rev Dr Novelle Josiah and the Methodist Church Dominica Circuit and Pastor Marcy of Sheba Life Guyana as well as LIAT and Fly Jamaica Airlines.

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