Babylon Town Intern Recovering Following Seizure

A Babylon Town intern who was rushed to the hospital prior to last Tuesday's Town Board suffered a seizure, officials reported.

Town officials later confirmed that, “She’s expected to be okay.”

The intern experienced what town officials believed to be a “short seizure” in last week’s pre-board meeting where she and her fellow interns in the Ujima Summer Minority Internship Program gathered to observe elected officials at work.

Although she reportedly seemed okay immediately following the episode, she was transported to by the .

“She was coherent afterward, and in the ambulance, and at the hospital, we’re told, but we didn’t want to take any chances,” said town officials, who delayed the public board meeting by approximately 35 minutes while the rescue responded.

According to NLFD – who was limited in what he could say due to privacy laws – was later able to share that when a person has a seizure, it’s recommended that they’re transported to the hospital.

In this case, he said, there was implied consent to take the intern there because of her age, as she and her fellow interns in the Ujima program will be high school juniors and seniors this September per requirements.

“You have to transport a minor if the parents aren’t there, as in this case,” he said. “It’s just like transporting an unconscious person.”

He said the hospital could then check for an underlying cause.

“Many times someone who’s had a seizure doesn’t want to go to the hospital, but it could be blood pressure or a heart issue, or be diabetes-related. So it’s important to check it out,” Moran said.

The intern’s parents met her at the hospital, and reported back to Councilwoman Jackie Gordon’s office – which has run the 11-year-old Ujima internship program for the past four years – that she was “doing better.”