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Nov 01, 2010 Letters
Dear Editor,
It’s ironic that the Minister of Health would rush to Berbice and commend the staff of the hospital there for their performance of their duties in regards to the 12 lives that were lost recently, due to another minibus accident and is not commending the staffs at all the public health places throughout the country, for their dedicated commitment in making sure lives are not lost, despite the lack of proper equipment and their measly salaries.
The recent deaths at the public hospitals in Guyana are very alarming and citizens should be very concerned, because here is a Minister who would boast regularly of new or renovated health institutions, but is not boasting of paying nurses satisfying salaries or providing them with proper equipment.
Mr. Editor, at the Zeelught Health Centre, nurses there have to use something shaped like a wine glass that is wooden and about four inches to attend to pregnant women in place of a stethoscope.
Whilst giving birth recently, the midwife exclaimed that some cord was around the baby’s neck and assisted in some physical way to help in saving my daughter’s life.
Today we all reminisce and are grateful for the midwife’s dedication to her duties, I don’t know if it’s because of the salary she’s being paid there being a private hospital or her interest in doing her job.
My wife and her relatives are always scared of going to public hospitals because of all those unnecessary deaths, they all share their views with each other and recently I see their views are extending to people outside.
Private hospitals are costly, but if someone wants to save their life or someone else’s I believe that is the only way to go. Our Health Minister would boast of all the system and new places, but I never heard him boasting of increasing their salaries or that they are satisfied with what they are earning.
Sahadeo Bates
Where is the BETTER MANAGEMENT/RENEGOTIATION OF THE OIL CONTRACTS you promised Jagdeo?
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