The Editor, Sir:

My name is Nicki Lodge-McLachlan and I currently reside in the United Kingdom. However, on finding that I had an unexplained illness that doctors, including my general practitioner and five surgeons, were unable to diagnose, I decided to return home for a general check-up.

I explained my dilemma to my doctor - Lenworth Jackson - who, upon examination, immediately informed me that I had an incisional hernia in my stomach, which was confirmed by an ultrasound. I was recommended to see a surgeon - Dr. Ken Williams at the Port Antonio Hospital.

Expert care

A more talented and exceptional person I've never met. He did my operation and found four hernias, plus other complications which he expertly took care of. He's a very caring and compassionate person who thoroughly enjoys his work, despite his extremely heavy workload with just the basic equipment (and the most amazing success rate) he always has a word of encouragement and a rallying joke for his patients. He sometimes has between 10-13 operations scheduled in one day, which I think is phenomenal, from amputations to Caesarean sections.

The Port Antonio Hospital was voted the cleanest hospital on the island after a national survey. The nurses I found kind and cheerful.

If you want to survive an operation, why go to foreign? By the way, there is a lab technician there by the name of Dwight Dormer, he's the man to see if you are afraid of doing blood tests - you feel nothing!

I am, etc.,

NICKI LODGE-MCLACHLAN