NINETEEN-year-old Omari Wharton, of 227 Grove Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara remains in a critical condition at the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) following an accident on the Hope Public Road, also on the East Bank Demerara on Sunday night.

Wharton, who is currently on life support systems, suffered severe head injuries and was rushed to hospital unconscious. To date he has not regained consciousness.

Soon after arriving at the GPHC on Sunday night, the injured teen was taken to the Mercy Hospital to have a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scan done. However, this newspaper understands that he is also to have a CT (computerized tomography) scan done to determine the nature and extent of injury to the brain and other sensitive parts, since it is feared there might be internal bleeding in the brain.

But late yesterday, the CT-scan was still not done, since the patient is hooked up to life-saving machines and cannot be removed at this time.

Wharton’s relative said he was struck off his cycle by a speeding PRISM mini van which hit him from behind. At the time of the accident, the lad was returning home after visiting his cousins at Friendship.

Meanwhile, Clifton Brown, 39, of lot 99 David Rose Street, Bagotsville, West Bank Demerara is also on life support systems in the Intensive Care Unit of the GPHC, after being involved in an accident on the Stanleytown Public Road, West Bank Demerara.

Brown’s reputed wife, Jacqueline Halley said he was struck down by a motor vehicle shortly after 22:00 h, as she was being chased by a man with a stick. The woman said her husband suffered life-threatening injuries to his head, back and both hands and feet, adding that his face is now swollen, almost beyond recognition.

The driver of the motor vehicle was held for questioning, but has since been released Halley said.

And still at the GPHC, at 00:05 h yesterday, 27 year old Reshma Singh, of Grove Squatting Area and several other persons were rushed to the Accident and Emergency Unit after a motor car in which they were travelling reportedly ran off the road and crashed into a nearby electricity pole on the Grove Public Road.

Those injured were: 20-year old Cerdina Elliot, of 95 Grove Public Road; 27 year old Mehondia Prashad of 2265 Diamond New Scheme; 34 year old Mohamed Khan of 26

Friendship Squatting Area; 17 year old Nyron Singh, of 500 Section A’ Great Diamond; and 19 year old Devionie Robertson, of 95 Public Road, Grove, E.B.D.

Reshma Singh sustained injuries to her neck and face; Elliot – to his left foot, hand and about the body; Prashad – to the head and right hand; Khan – his forehead and left foot; Nyron Singh sustained injuries to his nose and eye; and Robertson sustained injuries to her head and left eye.

Reshma Singh, Elliot and Robertson were admitted to the Female Surgical ward. Prashad and Nyron Singh were admitted to the Male Surgical ward. Khan was treated and discharged.