MOTORIST Otto Pitman, 26, who lost his right leg in a motor vehicular accident on D’Urban and High Streets on March 1, remains warded at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
He was last Friday taken back to theatre for further surgical intervention on his injured leg which had become infected.
The crushed leg was probably infected as Pitman lay with it submerged in dirty water in a drain at the roadside.
Though not yet out of danger, he is said to be recovering slowly, but is still experiencing severe pain.
Pitman, a gold miner from La Grange, West Bank Demerara, had spent the night in the city and was returning home early the following morning, when tragedy struck. His motor cycle was struck from behind by a motor car trying to avoid a water-filled pot hole on the roadway.
On impact, Pitman was rammed against a lamp post, resulting in his right leg being badly crushed. He ended up in a dirty drain at the roadside where he remained unconscious until he was spotted by men on a passing truck.
They picked him up, placed him in a vehicle and rushed him to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) where he was admitted and taken to the theatre.
However, within a few days infection had taken its toll, and doctors were forced to amputate the leg.