Woman, 51, breaks leg after falling into manhole

Aug 14, 2017 News

A 51 year -old woman is the latest victim to suffer injuries after falling into a manhole located in Georgetown. Jenny Boston, a security officer from Henry Street, Werk-en-Rust, suffered a broken left leg as a result of the fall.
She said that she encountered the manhole while returning home from the Stabroek Market.
“I was heading to get a taxi right in the vicinity of the Route # 42 Minibus Park area. I had just finished shopping.”
Boston said that it was after 18.00 hrs and the area was already dark.
“So the place was dark because they have no lights there. I was going to get a taxi but all of a sudden I slip and is down in a hole I deh. My foot gone right down.”
Boston said that taxi drivers and other public spirited citizens immediately rushed to her rescue.
“So instead of going home I had to go the hospital. I hurt my foot real bad.”
She said that the taxi drivers were quite angry because they said that they made attempts to cover the manhole but the city constables had removed the cover.
At the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, (GPHC) she received a medical certificate, which indicated that she had suffered a broken limb and her knee was badly damaged.
She will be unable to work for the following two to three weeks. She is now blaming her situation on the negligence of the officers of City Constabulary Department.

Jenny Boston shows off her injured leg

Manholes pose as daily hazards to commuters in the city

“How could they not see the need to have proper covering over that hole?”
“People traverse that area on a daily basis and it could have been anyone particularly children. Now I damage my foot and I have no one at home to help me. Both of my children are overseas,” Boston stressed.
As such, Boston is calling on the authorities within the Georgetown Mayor and City Council to have the situation rectified. Manhole accidents have become a problem for commuters in the city dating back as far as the early 2000s.
In 2015, Kaieteur News had reported a story about a young mother and her two year old daughter, who were forced to seek medical attention at GPHC after falling into a manhole at Stabroek Market. And two years before that, a six year old girl was treated at the same institution after she fell into a manhole during the celebrations on Diwali night.

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