Eight-year-old Sunil Singh, the Mahaicony Primary School student who was hit by a canter truck while waiting to cross the Mahaicony Public Road two weeks ago, passed away shortly after lunch yesterday at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

Sunil Singh

The lad’s mother Ramrattie Tiwari told Stabroek News last evening that the youngest of her four children passed away after lunch yesterday, while doctors at the hospital were preparing him for surgery. She said earlier yesterday her son was taken to the Woodlands Hospital where another scan was performed on his head.

According to the grieving woman, Sunil‘s condition changed dramatically yesterday morning, as she observed that he was not responding to her, during the 6 am visit yesterday. Last weekend she told this newspaper that the lad was showing some signs of improvement, noting that he was opening his eyes during her visit to him in the Intensive  Care Unit of the GPH where he was hooked up to a life support machine.

She told SN last evening that doctors attending to her son told her yesterday that the lad’s brain became infected and that his ear drums wwere severely damaged. She said his injuries were so severe that she was leaving everything to the Almighty to bring her son through his illness.

Singh was crossing the Mahaicony Public Road on October 7, during the lunch break, when he was hit by the canter truck, GHH 9532. He was standing on the road shoulder close to a pedestrian crossing near his home, along with two classmates waiting to cross the road when he was struck down by the vehicle.

He landed several feet away from the point of impact as his friends escaped being hit by running into a nearby yard after noticing the vehicle heading in their direction. Stabroek News understands that the vehicle involved in the incident is owned by a security service.  Sunil will be buried this weekend at the Good Hope cemetery at Mahaicony and he leaves to mourn his mother and three older siblings. His father died by drowning a few years ago at Mahaicony.