Hit and run victim needs financial help to walk again
Two Belize City women find themselves in very dire straits tonight after two separate incidents just hours apart left them incapacitated in the female ward at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The first incident occurred some time after one on Saturday morning as twenty-nine year old Pamela Stuart was heading to her house on Pelican Street Extension in the Collet area. Stuart says she had just left Shooters Night Club where she had gone out to see her former work colleagues for her birthday and was returning home. But she never reached her house because a white SUV sped by and knocked her right off her feet. The mother of three young children says the hit-and-run incident has racked up medical bills. What’s worse is that she is in need of surgery that is not available in Belize in order that she may be able to walk again – and that is estimated in the thousands. Stuart relives the incident first.
Pamela Stuart, Hit and Run Victim
“I was walking side weh deh had bout six car pan di side ah di street. From deh I noh remember nothing till I done deh by di last car and I was front ah it wid my face down. I just get up and do soh I seh I mussy di sleep. I look up and see star and when I do soh I see my hand full ah blood. And I see a policeman running close to me and he ask me if I okay. I tell ah weh happen to me why I was here and he seh a car just knock you down ih tell me. I ask di police if ih see any car. He seh ih only see a white SUV run out ah di scene. Di doctor dis morning he come and he tell me dehn noh have di equipment fi do nothing fi me here because my hip, di back of my hip is crack open and dehn noh have no equipment fi do thing fi me here. And di only I could get better is if deh fly me out ah di country. I am asking di public fi help because I noh have no money. Di lee bit I had I done it eena medication and x-ray and I have my three babies and my husband need help too because he noh have no job right now and he have to deal with di three kids plus myself. And when I fly out from yah I have to have money fi do my surgery also because after dat I have to have therapy because ih can’t be eena one thing. I have to have therapy and wait until I could walk again. If anybody could help me, and I know wah lot ah people could help.”
If you would like to help Pamela Stuart you may reach her on her husband’s cell phone at 601-2053 or visit her at the female surgical ward at the K.H.M.H.
