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Schoolgirl dies two weeks after accident
Eleven-year-old Hema Singh died at the Georgetown Public Hospital at 12:15 hrs yesterday, two weeks after she was struck down by a car on the Canal Number One, West Bank Demerara (WBD) Public Road.
Dead: Hema Singh
Singh died three days after doctors informed her relatives that she was brain dead.
The girl was a patient in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit where she was placed on a life support machine throughout her time at the facility.
The child had sustained multiple injuries when she was struck down by a car while crossing the Canal Number One Public Road. Her injuries included broken limbs, punctured lungs and bleeding in the brain.
The accident occurred on August 27 last, a short distance from the child’s Lot 19 Tenez Ferme, Canal Number One home.
The driver was released on station bail. Up to press time, he had not been rearrested.
Her mother, Nalini 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—at that time she had no idea it was her daughter who was involved in the accident.
The woman said that it was when a relative shouted her daughter’s name that she rushed out to see whether it was her child.
When Sukhu reached out on the public road, she spotted her daughter lying in a pool of blood – by then a neighbour had already removed Singh from in front of the vehicle and soaked her head and face with water.
Sukhu claimed that instead of being supportive, the driver whose car had struck down her daughter, came out of the vehicle and started arguing with a few residents who had asked if he didn’t see the child crossing the public road.
He subsequently took Singh and her mother to the West Demerara Regional Hospital from where she was transferred to 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 item she came for, 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.
Singh’s parents are hoping that the police can lay charges against the driver soon.
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