–during fall from three-storey building

FIFTY-TWO-year-old construction worker, Bhoodoo, was yesterday rushed to the Accident and Emergency Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) to treat the multiple injuries he sustained by falling from the rear section of the third floor of the Boxers Jewellery and Pawn Shop building which is under construction on Hadfield Street, Georgetown.Misfortune struck Boodhoo at about 15:15 hrs, and although he sustained serious injuries to his head, ribs, arms and shoulder, and has a suspected broken right leg, Boodhoo considers himself lucky to be alive, since, at the

time, he was wearing no helmet, and had suffered cuts to his frontal lobe.

He was taken to have X-Rays done, and was expected to have a CT-scan done as well.

Boodhoo’s fellow workers at the worksite said he apparently slipped and fell from a scaffold; and in plummeting through the air, hit his right leg on a concrete fence before landing awkwardly on the ground amidst several pieces of steel.

A ‘Rastaman’ who was driving a canter through Hadfield Street at the time and had witnessed the ordeal said he first saw a piece of wood tumbling through the air before he saw a man coming down behind it. He quickly pulled over his vehicle to run to the man’s rescue, by which time Boodhoo’s fellow workers had responded to the mishap. They placed the injured Bhoodoo into the Rastaman’s vehicle and rushed him to the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Informed by telephone, Bhoodoo’s relatives hastened to the hospital and found him in the triage area.
In a state of unease, they continued to pray for the best.

(By Shirley Thomas)