Shal­iza Has­sanali

Po­lit­i­cal leader of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar who frac­tured her left arm fol­low­ing a fall in Par­lia­ment has been giv­en two op­tions by her doc­tor. Al­low the hand to heal on its own or in­stall screws. Ei­ther op­tion, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said, would have its pros and cons, which she would have to look at. She in­tends to dis­cuss it with her hus­band first. Per­sad-Bisses­sar gave an up­date on her con­di­tion yes­ter­day as she was be­ing wheeled out of the main en­trance of St Clair Med­ical yes­ter­day, sur­round­ed by close friends. Ear­li­er, Per­sad-Bisses­sar was vis­it­ed by sev­er­al flower bear­ing UNC MPs, among them Jack Warn­er, Tim Gopeesingh and Dr Fuad Khan. UNC Sen­a­tor Lyn­di­ra Ou­dit and her moth­er Sheila Ram­nath were among those who showed up to wish her a speedy re­cov­ery.

Up to the time she left the hos­pi­tal, Op­po­si­tion Leader Bas­deo Pan­day had not paid her a vis­it. Asked if Pan­day might show up at her home, Per­sad-Bisses­sar replied: "I don't see why it is nec­es­sary." The Siparia MP in­sist­ed that she had to at­tend the Peo­ple's Par­ty at Rien­zi Com­plex, Cou­va last night to thank par­ty faith­ful for their un­wa­ver­ing sup­port. Per­sad-Bisses­sar was on her cell­phone when she tripped on the car­pet in the Par­lia­ment Cham­ber, fell and in­jured her shoul­der last Fri­day. Among those who fell in Par­lia­ment were for­mer Health Min­is­ter, John Raphael, Karen Tesheira and Joseph Ross. Clad in an sleeve­less yel­low dress, her arm in a blue sling, Per­sad-Bisses­sar was ex­am­ined yes­ter­day by two doc­tors, one of whom was or­thope­daedic spe­cial­ist, Dr David To­by.

To­by, speak­ing to the Sun­day Guardian in the cen­tre's carpark, said, "She is do­ing well." Per­sad-Bisses­sar said she was in ex­treme pain last Fri­day night, but felt bet­ter yes­ter­day morn­ing af­ter tak­ing sev­er­al pain killers. "I seem to have tripped on the car­pet in there; it was like a lit­tle raise, I did not see the dept of the car­pet. It seems the car­pet goes a cer­tain way and the dept of the car­pet­ing was not im­me­di­ate ob­vi­ous," said Per­sad-Bisses­sar, ex­plain­ing how she fell. Per­sad-Bisses­sar called for the mat­ter in­volv­ing the car­pet to be looked in­to.