Prison officers remain in critical state at GPHC

Jul 11, 2017 News

Prison Officer Hubert Trim is now a patient of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), having undergone hours of surgery and treatment yesterday. Trim was the Duty Officer at the time he sustained chop wounds to the head during the prison break on Sunday. He is among six prison officials receiving treatment at GPHC.
Prison Officers Simeon Sandy, Errol Daphness, Drexel Gonsalves, Jason Maltoy and Dominic Mingo also received treatment for either gunshot or chop wounds or a combination of both.
Keron Cummings, who escaped from the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court lock-ups in 2014, Mark (only name given) and Mohamed Potham, were some of the inmates injured during the fiery ordeal.
They too were taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital. When Kaieteur News visited the hospital yesterday, some of the injured persons were still in the operating room.
Others were admitted to the ICU and other wards in the hospital. Reports reaching this newspaper indicate that the inmates disarmed Prison Officers and shot them.
The inmates also used improvised weapons to inflict chop wounds on the Prison Officers during the fiery unrest at Camp Street prison. As the incident unfolded at the prisons, several ambulances and Prison Service vehicles transported the injured Prison Officers and inmates to the hospital.
The incident left one official dead.
Prison Officer Odinga Wickham succumbed to a gunshot wound to the chest and chop wounds inflicted on him by inmates at the Camp Street Prison, while undergoing treatment at the GPHC on Sunday evening.
President David Granger has since extended condolences to the family of Prison Officer Wickham and reassured that family of the other injured officers that they will receive the best care possible
Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence, had on Sunday evening said that the Emergency Unit is well equipped with all the medical supplies to deal with the situation.

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