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Jul 07, 2011 News
Director of Medical Services at the Georgetown Public Hospital, Dr Madan Rambaran, has resigned from his post at the institution.
According to sources one of the possible reasons may have been the fallout between himself and Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Priya Manickchand, over the Dr. Vishwamintra Persaud, saga.
Dr. Vish Persaud, according to New York Department of Health documents, was found guilty of sexual misconduct against a child in the second degree, in 2008.
In the same year he was sentenced to an eight-year order of protection, ten years of probation, and also fined US$2,500 as well as other fees.
Dr Persaud abused the child from 2003 to October 2007 and only stopped after an adult was told.
Kaieteur News was told that the resignation became effective July1. Dr Rambaran will continue to perform surgeries at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Dr Rambaran, in a letter to this newspaper last year, had stated that he was interested in knowing what Minister Manickchand did since November 12, last, when this matter became public and horrified as she was, to ensure application of the relevant laws.
His statement came after the Minister had told reporters that she was horrified and appalled that Dr Persaud was granted a licence and employed in Guyana.
“Somebody like Dr Persaud with his… background cannot in my view work in a public institution or work as a doctor where he is going to come into contact with women and children,” the Minister had quoted.
Dr Rambaran had stated that the issues pertaining to Dr Persaud are sufficiently complex and difficult.
Rambarran said that unfortunately any attempt to maintain objectivity and to call for a balanced debate is fraught with danger in this season of intolerance and pronouncements of “zero tolerance”: self righteous screaming and finger pointing seems to have the ascendancy over balanced examination and action.
Failure to recognise the humanity of the perpetrator, he said, renders him/her as less than human and consequently no punishment is too severe. In this regard, beheading the beast or burning it at the stake would be alright.
He submitted his resignation last month and given the fact that he had accumulative leave, opted to proceed on leave prior to his resignation.
Efforts to contact Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy proved futile yesterday.
(Latoya Giles)
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