West Berbice girl with brain tumour now paralysed

Colleacia Harcourt

The condition of seven-year-old Colleacia Harcourt, who has a malignant brain tumour, has worsened to partial paralysis even as her parents appeal again to the public to raise funds for an emergency operation to save her life.

The primary school student, who lives at Lichfield, West Coast Berbice, was diagnosed with the tumour over a month ago after she started experiencing intense headaches.

“She is paralysed now,” her father Travis Harcourt lamented yesterday to Stabroek News. He stated that his daughter has