Mother of brain dead national cycling champion remains hopeful

Even as 15-year-old Beyonce Ross, a national cycling champion, remains on life support at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC), her mother and family members remain hopeful that she will recover.
Speaking with Guyana Times on Sunday from the medical facility, the grieving mother, Yonette Clarke, posited that she would keep praying for a miracle, and asked that the public do the same.
Although doctors at the medical facility have told the family that the teenager is

brain dead, Clarke will not give up hope. “I will fight and pray and ask the Lord to work a miracle”, the mother stated.
Ross, a three-time gold medallist, fell ill in February last, and was diagnosed with a brain tumour in March. Her family became hopeful when they were further informed, just days ago, that the said tumour was not cancerous.
Plans were being made for the young woman to be taken overseas to have the tumour removed when the teenager’s health took a turn for the worse. Ross suffered a seizure at her home, and was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC), where she remains to date. She cannot respond to anyone, and remains in a vegetated state.
Ross is a student of the Lower Corentyne Secondary School.