A Guyana Power and Light (GPL) worker, who sustained severe electrical burns after being struck by a live wire on the job, is currently battling for his life in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).
Seon Scott called ‘Ganja’, 19, of Limlair Village, Corentyne, Berbice sustained the burns while working at Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice.
Just before press time, the boy’s father Ronald Scott told Stabroek News that his son was still on a life support machine having sustained “three scorches to his brain.” He said that because of the scorches on the brain doctors are unable to operate.
Meanwhile, when this publication spoke to Minnelli Richardson,
