–after successful treatment overseas

TWENTY-MONTH-OLD Ranveer Oselmo of Aruka River, North West District, who was severely burnt in November, has returned to Guyana after being successfully treated in the US.
The child’s treatment was fully sponsored by the Saving Hands Emergency Aid (SHEA) Foundation.

“We are happy to share that Ranveer is safely back in Guyana, where he had his first check-up at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) with Dr. Shilindra R. Rajkumar, Dr. Donette Cappell, and the Burns Care Unit which played a vital role in saving his life,” SHEA reported on its Facebook page recently.
The Foundation congratulated the doctors who did their best to ensure that the child was given a chance to live a full life, especially since 35 per cent of his body was burnt.

According to the toddler’s mother, Chevon Oselmo, Ranveer was burnt when he got too close to a lit kerosene stove.
As she explained, the shirt he was wearing at the time had traces of kerosene oil on it, and acted as a catalyst.
By the time his guardians noticed he was on fire, there was very little they could do but try to extinguish it.

According to SHEA, the extent of Ranveer’s injuries was so life-threatening that he needed to go overseas to get the kind of treatment he needed to save his life.
That’s when local doctors reached out to the Foundation to ask their help with medevacing him to the closest facility where he could be properly treated.
When the Guyana Chronicle arrived at the hospital to speak with the toddler’s family back in November,an evacuation team from Texas was conducting an evaluation of the child to see how soon he could be shifted.
It was later confirmed that he had been safely flown out of the country on an Air One Ambulance to Texas, where he was said to be receiving further medical attention.

The Foundation reported that US$48,000 was spent on the evacuation exercise alone, and a lot more was spent to get him treated.
“We would like to thank those who donated to the cause, and persons who continue to support us,” the organisation says.

SHEA is based and registered in the U.S., but has done extensive work in Guyana. Last year, they assisted three persons in getting treatment for burns.
Persons who are interested in donating to the work of the Foundation are asked to visit its website at Sheacharity.org, or find them on Facebook at sheacharity.gy.