A three-year- old baby boy was recently electrocuted in Paradise Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara, after coming into contact with a live extension cord inside his house.
Dead is Stephan Clinton Glen of Seventh Street, Paradise Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara. He was a student of Nabaclis Nursery School.
According to the toddler’s grandmother, Beverly Glen, she was in the kitchen preparing dinner when her grandchildren were playing hide and seek inside the house.
Glen explained that she immediately sensed something was amiss when the toddler’s sister said “run na, Stephan like yo dead.” Immediately, she dashed to the room where she noticed her grandson in a motionless position.

She explained that he had crawled under the bed to hide from his other siblings when he was shocked by a live extension cord.
The toddler was breathing at the time he was found and they decided to rush him to the Georgetown Public Hospital, but he succumbed.
Relatives complained that they tried to call an ambulance, but none was available in their district.

“If this place had more facilities, the baby would have survived. We need an ambulance for this and surrounding villages. If he had met the hospital earlier, he could have been saved,” one relative lamented.
The police and the fire service are investigating the matter.