Child beaten by classmates at Mon Repos school still hospitalised

The eight-year-old just days after he was admitted to the hospital as both his eyes were swollen shut.

Eight-year-old Richard Boodram, who was admitted to the hospital over two weeks ago after being severely injured during an attack by his classmates at the Mon Repos Primary School, remains a patient at a city hospital and was expected to start a new treatment yesterday.

Boodram was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital after his mother, Devika Persaud noticed him acting strangely when he returned home from school on November 1st.

The child’s mother, when contacted yesterday, told Stabroek News that her son is still a patient at the public hospital. She said that her son was seen by a number of doctors at the hospital and recently, they were told that as a result of the injury he sustained to the head, he picked up an infection.