SCHOOLBOY Joshua Miguel Lionel, who claimed to have been pushed off a corridor of the Canje Secondary School, has to be confined to his bed for four months.He was discharged from the New Amsterdam Hospital last Friday.
This means that he will lose valuable school time ahead of next year’s Caribbean Secondary Examination Certificate [CSEC], which he is expected to sit. He will also not be able to attend the interview to allow him entry to the Guyana Sugar Corporation  Training School, at Port Mourant, Corentyne.
Speaking from his bed at his Cumberland Village, East Canje home, the teen, recalling events leading up to the May 10 incident, said a few days before he had returned to school, after being  suspended for wearing a tight shirt.
“I went to school one day and I was sent home because the shirt was tight. My headmistress told me to go home. At that instance my mother could not purchase a shirt, so, she had me return to school the following day. However, on that day, I was told to return home and stay there until I have a better fitted shirt. I stayed home for five days before returning,” he said.
The teen, who works after school hours at a nearby grocery shop, said on May 10 last, just at the end of the school’s lunch period , he was in his Form 4C classroom on the upper flat of one of the two-storeyed buildings , when his classmate  ( name given) start to punch another student.
Lionel said he proceeded to the corridor when he was attacked and the student made good on a threat to push him off the corridor.
In the company of two teachers, he was taken by a Guyana Sugar Corporation ambulance to the New Amsterdam Hospital. He was examined by a doctor, who, subsequently transferred him to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, where he spent a week  in the male surgical ward , before an orthopaedic surgery was performed to his right arm and left hip in which a permanent metal was implanted .  He was then resent to New Amsterdam Hospital where he remained until his recent discharge.
His mother, Lorette Lindie, recalled being told by her son’s class teacher that he [ her son] was standing on the corridor, which was rotten, and he fell .
The woman said she believed the story until she overheard the doctor asking her son if she was pushed from the stomach or back.
According to Ms Lindie, she made a subsequent visit to the Canje Secondary school in an effort to make enquiries as to whether the child was suspended. However, students informed her that the child was never suspended, but that they, (the students) were collecting a donation on their peer’s behalf. A sum of $32000 was given to her by the Head Mistress Ms. Vanessa Jacobs.
In addition, she told this  newspaper that she is very disappointed with the staff of the school, “as no one ever visited  to see how the child is doing.
“I understand they may not have made it to visit him while he was in the Georgetown Hospital, but he was in New Amsterdam Hospital for almost two weeks and he has been home for a few days. No one has visited. It is so sad,” she lamented.