A 26-year-old construction worker died at the Georgetown Public HospitalCorporation (GPHC) yesterday, badly mutilated, after being struck down by a motorcar allegedly driven by a medical doctor at Providence, East Bank Demerara on Sunday. Dead is Quincy Greene of 36 Side Line Dam, Mocha, also on the East Bank Demerara. He was the son of June and Lincoln Green of Mocha.
The accident happened around 22:30 hrs on Sunday on the public road in the vicinity of Princess Hotel and Qualfon building. At the time, Greene was riding his motorcycle, CH 572, heading towards Georgetown and the motorcar driven by the doctor was travelling in the opposite direction.

Reports are that Greene and a friend called ‘Brains’, riding alongside him, were travelling towards Georgetown, and were at an intersection just off Qualfon when motorcar, PSS 5180, negotiating a bend, crashed into Green on his motorcycle. After the impact the car went headlong into a metal street lamp pole in the middle of the road.
Green was flung off his bike onto the roadway while the motorcycle ended up totalled at the roadside.
His head was badly battered and he appeared to have suffered back, neck and spinal injuries. In fact, one of his aunts who became hysterical, declared that she had seen him lying at the hospital and “He was destroyed from head to toe.”
On seeing and hearing the loud crash, public- spirited citizens rushed to the scene and whisked the badly injured young man to the Diamond Hospital where he was stabilised before being transferred to the GPHC.
Greene’s friend ‘Brains’ immediately made a phone call to his parents and other close relatives and they rushed to the hospital where they saw him in a crushed and unconscious state.
But the dead man’s relatives are adamant that on his arrival at the GPHC he was left unattended for about one hour, and the medical staff only got working at the insistence of his father. They claimed that when his father Lincoln Greene began pacing the floor, pleading for his son to be attended to, the security guard on duty in the triage area, promptly ordered him out.
When the injured man was eventually looked at, a CT scan was ordered and they were told to pay $18,000 which was their portion of the cost of the scan, the other part would be met by the hospital. The father who had $10,000 on him at the time, asked whether it would be okay for him to make the deposit and return later with the other $8,000. He was told yes.
But unfortunately, that meant no, because he was never taken out of the hospital to have the scan done until the following morning, even though another patient needing a scan was sent ahead of him and he was kept in the Emergency Room.
But what was strange, the relatives said, was that the following morning when the father arrived with the balance of the payment, he was told that he would have to pay more money – in order to have the neck and spine scanned as well. He did. Relatives said the distraught father took out another $20,000 and paid it over for the scans. That meant that he ended up paying $30,000 and Quincy was still not taken to have the scan done until about 11:00 hrs on Monday.
Pathetically, when he was taken to have the scan done, he was brought out back within about six minutes and transported back to the GPHC. At the GPHC they were told that he had succumbed, but no specific time of demise was given.
Relatives recalled that following the accident, Greene was bleeding from his nose and mouth, and the blood was choking him. On two occasions on the way to hospital he developed seizures and the ambulance had to stop along the way.
In the light of such developments, the Greene family is contending that those were reasons enough for his case to be treated as an emergency, and have the scan done soonest, but it was not done until twelve hours later.
They are therefore calling on the hospital authorities to mount a full investigation into the death of their loved one.
Quincy Jones leaves to mourn his parents Lincoln and June; three sisters and one brother and other relatives and friends.
By Shirley Thomas