FORTY-ONE-year-old Ronyel La Fleur, a private log-cutter of Rose Hall Town, Corentyne, is in a serious condition in the Georgetown Public Hospital, nursing a fractured upper spinal column, sustained on Wednesday, August 6, whilst felling a tree in the Canje River.

The father of two was not aware that the top of the tree he was cutting was entangled with another; thus when one tree fell, it brought down the other, and a branch from that tree hit La Fleur at the base of the neck, causing him spinal injuries.

The injured man remained unconscious on the ground until two other men working in the area heard him cry out and rushed to his assistance. They ferried him by boat out of the Canje River community to the Corentyne main thoroughfare, from whence they were able to get him transported to the New Amsterdam Hospital.

He was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit, and was later transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit as well.

Having seen some improvement, he is currently warded at the Male Surgical Ward, where his condition remains critical but stable.

Ronyel La Fleur is the husband of Natasha La Fleur, and is the father of a two-and-a-half-year-old child and a five-month-old child.

(Shirley Thomas)