Family seeks help to fund retired Linden teacher’s heart surgery

Elma Robertson

The family of a retired Mackenzie Primary School teacher is seeking the public’s assistance to raise funds for her to undergo an emergency heart surgery.

Elma Robertson, 69, has been a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation since last Saturday after her son brought her from her hometown of Linden to seek treatment for what was diagnosed as a heart attack.

The woman’s son, Roger Robertson, told Stabroek News that her doctor explained that