NARESH Ramotar, the six-year-old boy stabbed in the left eye with a pencil by another pupil of Strathspey Primary School, East Coast Demerara on Monday, may have to be medivaced to Trinidad for corrective surgery.
That would be necessary to save the injured eye, his grandfather, Harantak Harbahadur told the Guyana Chronicle Thursday evening.
A surgical operation was performed on the child at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) on Wednesday, two days after he suffered the injury and doctors were, at the time, concerned about prospects for the restoration of his vision.
However, a decision has now been made to have him flown to Trinidad, and the logistics are being worked out.
Meanwhile, relatives are disappointed at the initial response by the class teacher, claiming that she took no action to get the patient to hospital.
It was his parents who had to rush to the school on learning of the incident and take him to the Melanie Damishana Health Centre, on the East Coast Demerara, too.
But, in what sounds, pathetically, like a tragedy of errors, relatives related other acts of seeming negligence as they sought to get attention for Naresh.
A relative explained that two other boys, allegedly the class bullies, were pulling and tugging at each other over a lead pencil when Naresh, who was sitting next to them got stuck in the eye.
At the time, the headmistress was not at school, on account of illness and, when the incident was reported, the teacher who was also acting for the designated Grade One Class colleague did nothing.
.............that was in the 70s !
