Father of 3, paralysed after worksite accident, dies

Rahbindra Chandradat the 34-year-old father of three, who once dreamed of providing a better life for his children, took his final breath on Sunday.
Two years ago, a workplace accident robbed him of his mobility.
Chandradat, a resident of Better Hope Centre Ground Road, East Coast Demerara (ECD), had been in the hospital for two weeks before his death. His wife, Lisa Jaikarran, told Guyana Times that she was by his side in those final moments, helplessly watching as her husband’s life slipped away.
“He went in on the 14th,” she recalled. “The bedsore would make him sick, and he don’t feel well or nothing, and then his back…he did a spinal injury surgery before for his back, because his back sometimes does hurt he.”

“Last week Saturday, he went good good and then I cook and so on and carry food for him, and then he eat. Now on Sunday, I go see him… Monday morning, I see him, he not talking, nothing, nothing, nothing.”
Jaikarran said doctors explained that the bedsores had caused an infection in his blood, leading to the emergency surgery. Within days, Chandradat became unresponsive, and soon after, he died.
She said she returned home carrying news that shattered her family.
“I tell them [their children] this morning [Monday] when I come,” she said of their three children, ages 10, 9, and six. “They’re sad,” she said.
On May 1, 2023, Chandradat left home for work as usual. He never imagined it would be the last day he would stand on his own two feet.
While working on a construction site in Turkeyen, ECD, he fell 20 feet from a building. The impact shattered his back, leaving him permanently paralysed from the waist down.
February 2023, he spoke to Guyana Times about his struggles he was facing and how much he needed help for his family since he could not work.
“I need to move around. I need to work. I need to provide for my kids. I just want to be able to help my children,” he had said.
But his injuries had stolen his ability to work. And his then employers he once worked for, the company he had laboured for, his wife said, never looked back.
“No help. Nobody ever come to see him or anything,” Jaikarran said.
Without compensation, without a single call of concern from his employers, Chandradat’s wife said he was left to depend on her, who juggled caring for him and their children while trying to earn a living.
Despite his pain, his thoughts never left his family.
“I grew up very poor, and I don’t want my children to suffer and go through the same things I went through,” he had told Guyana Times.
But now, the reality he feared most has come to pass; he is no longer here to fight for them. Jaikarran is now left to shoulder a burden she never imagined facing alone.
“I have to be father and mother to them now. I feel so sad,” she said.
She works at a school, but the little she earns barely covers the cost of raising three children.
“When he was alive, I used to help, people use to contribute to him, and help the children,” she explained. “Now that he died, if persons still want to help, I would be grateful, because the money that I’m making is not enough.”
Chandradat fought to stay alive, not for himself, but for the three young lives that depended on him. Now, his children are left without their father, and his wife must navigate a future filled with uncertainty.
For those who wish to assist their children, Lisa Jaikarran can be reached at (592) 602-3674.