THE EDITOR, Sir:
THIS LETTER is not to apportion blame to anyone, but to stop what happened in the Jamaican hospitals from happening to anyone else.
On Monday December 3, a soldier, Roy Stewart, was taken to the Mandeville Hospital at 5.30 pm with a serious head injury. He was left sitting in a wheelchair in the Accident/Emergency Dept while the nurses were seen and heard weighing and comparing each other's weights. The poor soldier was not seen until 11.00pm.
His mother had to be running around paying fees for x-rays and for injections before treatment began.
His friends who took him up to the hospital had to 'gwaan bad' before anyone saw the dying soldier.
Questions need to be asked and an enquiry should be carried out. It is no point spending lots of money building and refurbishing hospital if Third World attitudes continue. Once taken to Kingston next day, why was he shuffled from one hospital to the next without anything being done?
A young man 24 years old has died needlessly.
It is to be admitted that mistakes were made also at the scene of the injury, but once he got to hospital, he should not have died.
I am etc.,
C.G. ANDERSON
26 Selborne Rd.
Handsworth Wood
Birmingham,
United Kingdom
Via Go-Jamaica
