–patiently awaiting relatives to pick her up at PHG
A SIXTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD pensioner, who suffered a fractured right leg while on her way to the General Post Office Corporation (GPO) to uplift her pension last Friday, has since been warded at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corportion (GPHC), unknown to her relatives.
Hymotie Bisnauth, who lives at Parfait Harmonie with her daughter, Maharanie Singh and son-in-law Rudolph Singh would like them to know that she has been in hospital for the last six days and was discharged yesterday. She is, however, waiting to be picked up by them before today is out.
The beleaguered woman recalls that last Friday she had just gotten out of the speed boat at the Transport and Harbours wharf at Stabroek, when as she was walking outside the market, a car drove over her right instep. She cried out in pain, alerting the driver to what had happened, and he reversed but this time hit the leg higher up, resulting in her sustaining a fracture.
At the time, she was walking along with a woman, who had earlier introduced herself as Elvie Joseph, and her grandchild.
The driver opened the door and the injured woman sat down on the seat, along with Joseph and her grandchild. He drove them to the Accident and Emergency Unit of the GPHC, but on arriving there, dropped them off and disappeared. She therefore has no particulars about him or his car, since she was writhing in pain and the other woman was assisting her to get in and out of the car.
All she could remember she said, was that, “The porter bring me in wid de chair, and he (the driver) go lang he way. He never come back.” She says, however, that she would remember his face anywhere she sees him.
Fortunately, she has been able to retain her pension book, identification and other business cards, but never managed to reach the post office to uplift her pension.
Hymotie said her daughter and son-in-law are probably of the view that she had uplifted her pension, then diverted in an attempt to spend some time with other relatives, which she would regularly do.
(By Shirley Thomas)
