4-Year-Old Camalote Fire Victim Flown Out to Shriners
The Burn Victim Mercy Fund has stepped in once again to assist a minor who received severe burns to the body last week. Before midday today, four-year-old Unique Ramclam was transported by BERT ambulance from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital to the Phillip Goldson International Airport where she will be taken for further medical assistance at Shriner’s Hospital in Houston, Texas. Thankfully, this time around the patient was allowed to travel commercial from Belize to Houston in the company of a doctor; when she arrives at the airport in Texas, U.S.A, an ambulance will then transport her to Shriners Hospital. The incident occurred in Camalote Village exactly one week ago; mother Anya Nah explains what happened.
Anya Nah
Anya Nah, Mother of Burn Victim [File: August 16th, 2018]
“She dah the one weh get burn to the neck, the face, around her head, her back mostly, arm, foot; ih lee hands, ih lee toes and part of her belly. I left dehn two di sleep upstairs—Elijah and unique sleeping ina bed—I gone downstairs fi like five minutes fi gone get wah plate ah food weh mi sister-in-law offer me. I gone down there, I sit down fi wah lee while. And she say get up and take out yo own food. So I get out fi take out my food; I take out two pot spoon of rice when I hear my lee cousin Aliyah holla gial Anya yo house deh pan fire. When I look out I see the whole house, just the top piece, the windows smoke—just black smoke. I had to run upstairs. I grab my son by ih ponytail and just fling he outside. And then ina di room just had like blazing fire. I just run straight in there pan di bed weh my daughter mi deh pan. I just drag she from ih left arm. When I drag her off the bed, she di cry. Ih say, “Mommy, mommy please help me? Help me mommy, please help me.” She mi deh way by the bed head just di cry.”
The tab is around ten thousand dollars. Anyone willing donate to the Burn Victims Mercy Fund can do so by making deposits to its Heritage Bank account.
