Schoolgirl brain dead following accident

Sep 09, 2016 News

Relatives of 11-year-old Hema Singh have been informed that it is just a matter of time before they have to bid her their final goodbye, since she is brain dead.

Hema Singh

Singh is a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)’s Intensive Care Unit.
Her mother, Nalini Sukhu said that she has been informed by the doctors at the hospital that her daughter’s condition is deteriorating.
“Basically what they are saying is that she just has a little life left and it is only a matter of time. They still have her on the life machine,” the woman said.
She explained that her daughter’s brain is still swollen. No surgery can be done now on her brain.
Singh also called “Amesha” of 19 Tenez Ferme, Canal Number One, West Bank Demerara, suffered a broken left leg and head injuries.
The accident occurred on August 27, last. The driver has been released on station bail.
According to information received, Singh was crossing the Canal Number One Public Road, when she was struck down by a car bearing registration number PPP 5344.
Sukhu said that she had sent her daughter to buy garlic from a grocery van that was passing on the public road when the accident occurred.
”I was sewing and when I see she (Hema) stopped the van, I continued sewing and all I hear was ‘blam’ and when I look up, I see a child in the air,” Sukhu recalled.
She said that when she rushed out, a neighbour had already removed her daughter from in front of the vehicle and soaked her head with water.
”The driver came out of the vehicle and was arguing with some boys who were asking him if he didn’t see the child,” the woman said.
The driver took Singh and her mother to the West Demerara Regional Hospital before she was eventually transferred to the GPHC.
Sukhu explained that at the scene of the accident she was informed by the driver of the grocery van, that her daughter needed more money to purchase the garlic, hence, she was returning home for the rest of the money when she was struck down.
The driver, according to Sukhu, claimed that the child was walking over the road, instead of running. However, the mother was informed by eyewitnesses that the driver was not paying attention.
Hema Singh would have started the Patentia Secondary school this term.

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