A 40-YEAR-OLD male employee at the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) was on Sunday rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), after he was shocked while conducting line maintenance works.

Warded in the emergency care unit is Dara Singh, a resident of Garden of Eden, East Bank Demerara (EBD).
Report are that at around 11:00 hrs, Singh was working on the electrical wires, transferring cables on the intersection of Stabroek Market and Croal Street when a ruptured cable caused him to come in contact with a live wire.

He was thrown to the ground and his co-workers immediately transported him to the GPHC in the company vehicle.
At the hospital, one of Singh’s colleagues, who opted to remain anonymous, said that it is not unusual for wires to burst while works are being conducted and although Singh was wearing insulation material, it did not help at the time.

“He was wearing everything but it was 7,800 volts. There is nothing he can wear for that,” said the worker who is now “hoping and praying” for the safe recovery of his colleague.
The co-worker said, too, that Singh’s condition appeared serious at the time he was rushed into emergency care and that his wife was also present at the hospital.

Singh, said to be a father of four has been working with the GPL for some three years.