Wife of injured Stann Creek man seeks assistance
Over the weekend another collision between a motor vehicle and pedestrian in the Stann Creek district has left a man unconscious and his wife in emotional and financial distress.
Orlanda Mes, Common-law-wife of accident Victim
“He lost his mind and he broke two of his legs here. He can’t move and anytime I talk to him he doesn’t answer me good you know.”
Six days after twenty-seven year old Mark Cho was knocked down in Red Bank Village, the young father remains in a serious but stable condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Orlanda Mes says she was waiting for her husband to come home when she received the news that he was hit by a pickup truck about half a mile down the entrance road to the village.
Orlanda Mes
“My husband was returning from work at around seven o’clock on Saturday and what he had pan the bicycle when he is coming home, he have a pack of pampers and a twenty pound of rice because usually he reach home seven ‘o clock and I am waiting for him.”
“When I reached I see my husband lying on the ground like dead, dead, dead like noh di move nothing; I see blood on his foot and I see this leg here on the side bend up like this. You know I get shock.”
The driver has since been identified as Cayo resident twenty-one year old Rudy Aldamez. Police say because they have been unable to speak with Cho they do not know what caused the accident and the case remains under investigation.
Orlanda Mes
“Now he is very sick, he’s in pain. You can’t talk to him because … I can’t because he lost his mind. Any time I ask him how it happen, the accident happened, he doesn’t answer me; we don’t know, he is just sleeping like that.”
“The driver said that how … I only remember him telling me that my husband is trying to cross the way da so he knock ah but you know I don’t know, but I find my husband lying on the right side where he was suppose to come in the right side and the vehicle deh right side di road too, right there on the right side.”
Mes says she wonders if Cho will fully recover from his injuries and how it will affect the family.
Orlanda Mes
“He is the only person I depend on; he is my husband you know. Because you see I have two babies, they are very small yet. One is three years and one is two years … that really pain. That’s why I need money fi go fi the catscan and he had to go and operate his foot you know, need a lot of money for him to pay the hospital fi come out again, lot of money. And I don’t have money know, you see I need help, I need someone to help me you know. I can’t help him because I am here with him in the hospital.”
Mes says a woman who was travelling with the driver at the time of the accident did visit them at the K.H.M.H. and offered to help but so far have failed to contact the family. Today Mes appealed for that assistance.
Orlanda Mes
“She came here to ask if I need help but I di wait fi her and she noh come yet. I don’t know what’s the problem and I am waiting, waiting here and you see right now I need help, I need help.”
If you can help Orlanda Mes, please contact her at telephone number 663-0107 or donations can be made to Belize Bank account number 20-8349.
