Jason Montgomery, the Australian shot during the robbery six weeks ago at Safraz’s Bar, is now set for the final leg of his journey to Australia after treatment in London but his condition is still listed as critical.
He was taken off his flight in London last week for urgent medical attention to punctured intestines.
Stabroek News had learnt from Montgomery’s business associate, Mark Xavier, that his parents hired a medical escort from a Florida-based company to take him to Australia. After the London flight he was expected to stop at Dubai and finally Singapore before reaching his homeland.
Montgomery, 36, sustained a gunshot wound in the abdomen. On the night of January 8, when three gunmen stormed Safraz’s Bar and Restaurant on David Street, Kitty, Montgomery was one of two patrons who were injured.
A waitress, Kulmattie Singh, was fatally shot in the head.
His mother, Sandy Brosnan was quoted in today’s edition of the Australian publication Gympie Times as saying that specialists had met and explained the risks to Montgomery, who had insisted that he wanted to return to Queensland as soon as possible.
“His life-saving flight out of Guyana was risky enough, even with intensive medical supervision all the way, after one botched operation in a Guyana public hospital left him with an undetected rupture of the colon, a range of infections and life-threatening blood clots in his lungs and legs”, the Gympie Times reported.
An attempted repair operation in a private hospital soon afterwards was successful enough, but his prognosis remained far from optimistic, his mother said.
“It’s six-and-a-half hours to Dubai. If he survives that they’ll fly him on to Singapore and then home.
“He’s a tough nut,” she said. After the incident, Montgomery was admitted to the High Dependency Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH). He was released from the GPH three days later on January 12. Montgomery was admitted the same day to a private hospital.
