A toddler died at the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday after she accidentally fell down the stairs at her home at Buxton, East Coast Demerara.
Dead is one-year-old Treverlyn Thomas, of Lot 34 Middle Walk, Buxton.
When this newspaper visited the infant’s home, her mother Dawn Leitch related that about 7.30 am, she and the toddler were in the living room.
“I just done feed she and she jump out me hand and run with a force and push open the back door… Then I hear the tumbling down the step. When I go outside, she been pon de ground crying,” Leitch said.
Leitch said she picked up her daughter and rushed her to the hospital where she was taken into the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
She said the child responded to her name everytime it was called during the trip to the hospital and in the emergency room.
After some hours, doctors notified her that the infant had sustained a fractured skull and her brain was bleeding heavily.
“The doctor come out and told me that she got a 50/50 chance of surviving… When I go in the room I see they had a tube in she lungs because she couldn’t breathe on she own,” Leitch lamented.
The grieving mother stated that at about 2.30 pm, a doctor came out and related to her that her daughter had died.
The mother said Treverlyn, who has a twin brother, was a bold child.
“Oh my little Tinesha [the name Treverlyn was called] she like see them breeze blow pon dem tree and she does mimic them animals in the community. Oh yuh gone and left meh! Why?” Leitch cried.
