Family pleads for help
Former beauty queen beaten into coma...
By Camille Bethel THE family of former beauty queen Candice Worrel, who went into a coma after being brutally attacked and robbed on January 20 at her workplace, says she is making progress but needs financial assistance in taking care of her medical bills.
Worrel's mother, Susan Worrel, who last week called on police to stop dragging their feet in finding her daughter's attacker, yesterday said the family is grateful to the doctors and those who have assisted in getting her 29-year-old daughter to the point she is at right now.
"We have to thank the people who helped in getting her to where she is right now. She is not fully back to us but she has started waving, she has started nodding yes and no, so she is progressing."
The elder Worrel said although they have had no corporate help for her daughter, who represented this country at the 2009 Miss Tourism Queen International in China, they have had support from her friends and family.
She said she reached out to the Ministry of Tourism for assistance but was told that she did not represent the country under the Ministry of Tourism, it was under Tourism Development Corporation (TDC).
"I tried to reach out to Jack Warner seeing that he is the MP for Chaguanas and I was told I have to join a line at 3 a.m. to see him."
She said she told Warner's secretary how serious the situation was "She took my number and this is three weeks now and I have not had a call from anyone," she said.
Her daughter she said is at a government-run medical institution but they have to purchase all of her medication.
Doctors she said have told them that they could not be sure when she would fully recover.
"We were told it could take two months, it could take three months, it could take a year but I don't believe that I believe that she coming out before that," she said.
In terms of finding her daughter's attacker Worrel said everything is in the hands of the police who have a description of the attacker.
"The case is very delicate and I do not want to go into details," she added.
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