Sawmill worker dies from October injuries

Sawmill worker dies from October injuries
Guyana Chronicle, 10 January 2008
A SIXTY-YEAR-OLD labourer, struck in the chest by a falling piece of
lumber while working at a Parika, East Bank Essequibo sawmill last
October 16, died yesterday in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of
Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

George Profitt, also of Parika, succumbed around 14:45 h, his
distraught relatives told the Guyana Chronicle.

They said he never recovered fully since being injured and had been in
and out of hospital.
He was being treated for internal as well as external injuries to the
chest.

During the Christmas holidays, Profitt was taken to West Demerara
Regional Hospital but, on Old Year’s Night, his condition worsened and
he was transferred to the High Dependency Unit (HDU) of GPH.

After about a week there, he deteriorated rapidly and breathed his last
minutes after being moved to the ICU.

A post mortem examination is to be conducted tomorrow on the body of
Profitt, who is survived by his wife, Ruby Wong, two sons, Gary and
Kennard, daughter Glennis and other kin.