OCHO RIOS, St Ann – The People’s National Party (PNP) candidate for South West St Ann, Glenville Shaw, was expected to undergo surgery by last night on a fractured leg he suffered while campaigning in the constituency following his nomination on Tuesday.

“He is stable, he is awaiting surgery,” Shaw’s daughter, Anna-Lee, told the Observer from the Kingston hospital where her father has been admitted.

Shaw was apparently trying to board a slow moving pick-up truck during Tuesday’s nomination day activities in his constituency when he slipped and fell, fracturing his right leg.

“We are assuming it is the right femur but we’re not sure as yet. The X-ray was done not long ago and when the doctors review it they will know for sure,” Anna-Lee said yesterday afternoon.

Anna-Lee was, however, expecting her father to be “up and out” by the weekend.

Shaw was nominated Tuesday as the PNP candidate to contest the South West St Ann seat against the Jamaica Labour Party’s Ernest Smith, who won the seat in the 2002 general elections.

Yesterday, PNP general secretary Donald Buchanan, who expressed sympathy to Shaw, said the party’s organisation in South West St Ann would do what was necessary to offer assistance to the candidate.

“We are awaiting the medical outcome to determine what further assistance there can be, but come the 27th (of August) he is going to be elected the member of parliament for the constituency,” Buchanan said.