DMITRI Reece, the 21-year-old construction worker who was stabbed in the chest during a misunderstanding with another man at Canterbury Walk, Beterverwagting, on Sunday, remained warded at the High Dependency Unit (HDU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) yesterday.

Although conscious and somewhat able to communicate, his condition was still listed as critical, and he was expectorating blood whenever he coughed.

From his hospital bed yesterday, he thanked God for sparing his life, and expressed gratitude to the staff at the GPHC who feverishly played their part in that undertaking. He also had special thanks for the ranks of the Guyana Police Force (Black Clothes and Tactical Services Unit) who did everything in their power to get him to the hospital alive.    

He had bled profusely and the wound was just centimetres away from his heart and lungs.
“If it wasn’t fuh de police I couldn’t reach the hospital alive. I was bleeding to death,” he recalled.  “When I get to the hospital, everything around me started getting dark, dark. My feet started getting cold, then I could not feel them anymore. I felt like death was creeping in. I wanted to ask my mother to hold me for the last, but she was crying, and I realized I could not break news like that to her.  Then I asked God to keep me, and He did,” Dmitri whispered from his hospital bed yesterday.

He underwent an operation in the theatre on Sunday afternoon. His condition is now being monitored closely. 

Reece, of 33 Onion Field, La Bonne Intention (LBI), East Coast Demerara was stabbed in the chest by a man with whom he had had a problem several months ago. Relatives had thought that the matter had been resolved, and they were surprised when they learnt that on Sunday afternoon, at around 17:00 hrs, he had been stabbed by his assailant.

Police rushed the wounded man to the Accident and Emergency Unit of the GPH, and commenced investigations into the incident, which are still continuing though the suspect remains at large.