TWELVE-YEAR-OLD Ronell Roberts, shocked by a dangling Guyana Power & Light (GPL) wire while playing football on the Ministry of Health playground, Brickdam, Georgetown, last Thursday, was discharged from Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) on Monday.
He is now resting comfortably at his parents’ Bent Street, Wortmanville home, after being in the High Dependency Unit, attached to an oxygen machine because he had ceased breathing temporarily.
His mother, Sharon Roberts, thanking God for sparing his life, yesterday said, prior to his leaving the GPH, he underwent tests, including to determine how his heart was functioning.
His face, which was also burnt by the electricity from a transmission line, is swollen and the wound he suffered has to be constantly cleaned with antiseptics, like the burns on his hand.
Meanwhile, GPL has been in contact with his mother. She said they twice visited him in hospital and apologised for what happened to him.
The child’s mother and grandmother, Vivern Jones, have also expressed gratitude to the doctors and other GPH staff and the employees of Stain Masters, whose timely and humanitarian intervention helped save the boy’s  life and the Police, for their prompt response, friends and other persons who also assisted.
The lad and his siblings are in the care of his mother and grandmother, following the brutal gunning down of his father, Police Corporal Reyon Roberts, in January 2003, at a time when policemen were constantly at risk to marauding gunmen.