Shot Linden protestor admitted at GPH for surgery

After four hours waiting at the Georgetown Public Hospital to meet with a doctor, Dexter Scotland, one of the shot Linden protestors, was admitted as a patient and is awaiting surgery to the face.

Scotland, a 28-year-old father of three, was shot to the face on July 18 during a protest over an increase in power tariffs. Three persons were shot and killed and at least 20 others injured, after police opened fire on protestors.

The injured man’s mother, Murlene Scotland, had told Stabroek News that  he