Almost two weeks after he was attacked and stung by a swarm of Africanised bees, the Chairman attached to the Wyburg/Caracas Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) in Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne), has passed.
Dead is Cheemanlall Youardhan, Chairman of the Wyburg/Caracas Neighbourhood Democratic Council.
At the time of the bee attack, Youardhan was carrying out community work. Youardhan passed away on Monday after being attacked by the bees on September 27.
Overseer of Wyburg/Caracas Neighbourhood Democratic Council, Macy Youardhan explained that the Chairman had gone into the field upon the request of a farmer.
She said that there was bulldozer working there and she was subsequently able to speak with the operator.
“He told us that there were too much bees and no one could have gone in and help him; it was too much.”
She said the operator was able to get to the bulldozer and close the door behind him.
The overseer, who is also the daughter of the now dead NDC Chairman, said she was also able to speak with her father while he was hospitalised.
“My dad told me that he was on the tractor when the bees came and he couldn’t drive off because the bulldozer was on the middle of the dam. He jumped off of the tractor and jumped into the side trench. He said that it was so deep and he would [not] have been able to swim, so, he came out and ran,” the overseer painfully related while noting that her father told her he tried to fit himself in a tube to prevent more bees from stinging him.
That tube, that her father was trying to seek refuge in, was in the sluice, she explained.
“He said it was so much that he couldn’t help himself,” she added.
“My dad told me that they were all over his head and he feel like they were going into his mouth, all in his ears and his eyes the inside they sting.”
Youardhan was taken to the New Amsterdam Hospital and subsequently transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital three days later and remained there until his passing.
He leaves to mourn a wife and six children. (G4)
