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Feb 27, 2011 News
A 39- year-old destitute woman who gave her name as ‘Drupattie Singh’ is apparently dying at Rose Hall Town, on the Corentyne.
Residents say that they have exhausted every possible avenue seeking help for the woman. The woman is lying in her own filth on the floor of an abandoned funeral parlour at Independence Avenue in Rose Hall Town.
According to one resident, who owns a sawmill next door, he called the police at the Rose Hall Town Police Outpost, just a few blocks away, and described the woman’s situation to one Sergeant Saul, only to be told by the female sergeant that they [the police] do not look after the sick.
The police referred the resident to the Guyana Fire Service. The resident then called Regional Chairman of Region Six, Zulkfikar Mustapha who gave her the telephone number of ‘B’ Division Commander, Stephen Merai. When she telephoned Merai, he allegedly told her that the job of the police begins when someone dies and not when they are sick.
The woman then called the New Amsterdam Public Hospital to request an ambulance. She was told that no supervisor was in at the time.
The sick woman up to yesterday, was curled up in a sheet and crying out for pain and medical attention. “Allyu carry me a hospital before me dead”.
The woman said that she has tuberculosis and that her father lives at Tain, a village or two away. The Rose Hall Town concerned residents said that the woman has been staying in the building for over two months.
The residents were outraged. They said that millions of dollars is budgeted to the Ministries of Health and Human Services and Social Security, only to know that citizens like Drupattie Singh is neglected in her time of need and forgotten by the relevant authorities.
“We really gone bad in this country”, one of the residents said. (Leon Suseran)
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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