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Jul 10, 2012 Letters
Dear Editor,
The sister in charge of the Intensive Care Unit at GPHC suffered a head injury and broke her hip in the minibus crash on the East Coast Demerara on Saturday night.
I found the following deeply disturbing:-
1) After decades of faithful service, rising to be a senior sister, she still does not own a car.
I think that is a crime. Her batch mates who migrated, own car(s), house, etc. Newly qualified nurses promptly sit overseas exams, and migrate at the earliest opportunity.
Hospitals are staffed mainly by nursing assistants and patient care assistants. It has been challenging for matrons in hospitals to find at least one staff nurse per ward per shift and per clinic. Linden Hospital does not have that problem because of the nursing school. Staff nurses are rare, and senior sisters are even rarer, and this is the value placed on them!
Last week when I was on duty, Sister was one of only two nurses to care for our 7 critically ill patients.
Ideally, there should have been 7 nurses, but due to our severe shortage of staff nurses, that is an unattainable dream. Her experience is not easily replaceable.
2) Why have speed limits not yet been enforced, especially for minibuses, rendering them incapable of speeding. The loss of life and disability is excessive.
3) How can the government even contemplate investing in a luxury hotel and a luxury airport to benefit maybe 1% of the population, using taxes taken from the masses, when their life saving needs are so great?
Surely that money would be better spent on street lighting, or non-potholed roads, or reducing communicable diseases such as TB.
If TB continues to increase locally as stated on an international website, then the airport will be used only for migration, and there would be zero visitors in the luxury hotel.
4) I am angry.
Vivienne Mitchell
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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