Disparition d'un accompagnateur sportif

Week-end du 03 Mar 02 par Jean Claude Antoine

Le monde du sport en plein air – canyoning, escalade, rafting, randonnées est en deuil. Roshan Mungroo -accompagnateur sportif de Beachcomber ­ Sport et Nature, est décédé Dimanche dernier complications ayant suivi une chute à Eau Bleue.  Agé de 22 ans, Roshan Mungroo avait été formé par Daniel Colin qui fait partie de ceux qui ont lancé, sur une base professionnelle, l’éco-tourisme à Maurice.

 Depuis un peu plus d’un an, Roshan participait au repérage des parcours et à l’accompagnement des amateurs  pour les activités proposé par Beachcomber  Sport et Nature.  C'est dans ce contex­te qu'il avait aidé Week-End à réaliser deux reportages sur le canyoning aux Sept Cas­cades, l'an dernier et les cascades de la rivière Eau Bleue, il y a deux semaines.  

C'est lors d'un repérage pour l’installation d'une tyrolienne  à Eau Bleue, il y a trois  semaines, que Roshan a fait une chute en essayant d'em­prunter un raccourci.  Il avait été admis en clinique, souf­frant d'une fracture au bras gauche et avait dû, par la sui­te, subir une opération aux reins.  Son état s’était amélio­ré en fin de semaine dernière avant qu'il ne succombe, di­manche, suite à des compli­cations médicales inattendues.

Un de ses amis, également accompagnateur sportif et passionné d'éco-tourisme, nous a fait parvenir les vers suivants que nous publions pour saluer la mémoire de Roshan.

May you rest in peace, Roshan

There, where the rivers will never run dry,

Where the mountains, ever, so high

And trees, ever so green,

Will be yours like a dream

Ever so real

 J-C.A.

My Analysis^**:

The two guides were out to Eau Bleu to spot out a Tyrolean traverse for the BSN Sport Nature. While setting up the tyrolean traverse, Roshan decided to climb up the waterwall using the roots of a Banyan tree on the left of the falls. One metre from the top, his handhold broke and he took a 15m fall backward into the shallow waters. According to Daniel Collin and Roshan's parents, roshan was half conscious. Daniel took the decision to take his colleague to a medical facility. Roshan walked to the beginning of the trail, supported by daniel who then carried the later on his back to the car.

X-ray of Roshan's abdomen showed trauma to the liver and possibly pneumothorax and hemothorax, most probably sustained during the fall and most probably worsened during the evacuation. Roshan also sustained an elbow dislocation and wrist fracture.

The most basic first aid training formally prevents moving the casualty before a complete physical evaluation has been carried out. Any person having sustained such a fall should have his neck immobilized and the mechanism of injury would have required the patient to be strapped  on a back board/ basket stretcher. Palpation of the abdomen would have indicated severe pain in the upper right quadrant. A fist set of vital signs should have been taken and an Ambulance from the SAMU called in. The ideal evacuation would have been an aerial tramway using a basket stretcher. A simpler solution would have been to slide the patient up the steep track to the road but it would have be a bumpy and uncomfortable ride. 

Unfortunately, having worked with BSN - Transmaurice after the accident, there was no rescue or emergency response training or standard of procedure regarding accidents setup. I believe that for such a case the Police (GIPM) and SAMU should have been called in. They would have probably saved Roshan's live.

Beachcomber Sport Nature (BSN) and Transmaurice ltd. (the employing company), reported the accident after Roshan's Death, 10 days later !?

No enquiry from the Police or from the Ministry of Works or Ministry of Tourism was ever made so that no responsibilities was ever established..

Krish