Armed guards and a spanking new ambulance are now features at the Linden hospitals and nurses in the Region Ten community have returned to work.
The ambulance
Chief Executive Officer of the Linden Hospital Complex, Gordon Gumbs, received the keys for the ambulance yesterday and said he was pleased that ambulance service to the Linden community would be improved with the acquisition.
The hospital operated with two ailing ambulances in the past, which constantly broke down.
Visits to both the Linden Hospital Complex and the Upper Demerara/Mackenzie Hospital revealed enhanced security and nurses back at their posts.
At the Upper Demerara Hospital yesterday, iron grills were being installed at entrance points.
According to the Guyana Public Service Union representative at Linden, Maurice Butters, the Regional Administration has undertaken the installation of the iron grill and has committed to having the work completed in three days.
The union and hospital representatives are to continue talks 48 hours after full resumption of duty by the nurses.
Nurses attached to both hospitals had downed tools last week following the rape and robbing of one nurse and the robbing of another at the Mackenzie Hospital. Two men appeared in court on Wednesday in connection with this.
This is good news to hear that something was done to enhance the working condition at the linden hospital complex, also the aquisition of a new ambulance for emergency purposes, they still need a few more ambulances for emergency purposes one ambulance alone cant do. Anyway that’s good news to hear.
This goverment only understands demonstrations and violence before it adresses peoples concerns,if those nurses were quiet and only complaining to the Ministry of Health,they would have had the royal runaround.After protesting look how quick things are put in place.
not only the protest of the nurses but the tragic rape and robery of two of these nurses who had to suffer such horror before anything was being done, shame on this administration, i cry for my country.
u c this is the real problem. thanks for the extra secuirty in linden…what about all the other nurses who work without security? it’s like they only act after a problem. THINK!
………..hi gt you leave out the camera installation around both hospitals………..and exterior lighting. flood lights……….
These people we call government posesses no perception at all, they do not have the ability to notice or dicern things that escape the observation of most people, so therefore in my own opinion, they are not fit for their position, we need people with the necessary skills to act on an observation, not to sit on their hands until there is a catastrophe or some terrible disaster or accident that claims the lives of many people or the rape of someone’s sister, wife mother or daughter, we have to get the round pegs out of the square holes. The present situation in guyana is deplorable and needs to be remedied effectually, and urgently, and all the other parties as well are not going to bring about change with the garbage that they are spewing everyday. where there is no vision, the people perish.
i agree with every one comments above,
………..i continue to ask the question…………is it trama…!!..tramatic…..or trapling on a woman’s rights…!!………what happen to my guyanese sisters who have to face the guyanese society again………i feel for these sisters…………because they have to live andreintigrate temself back into thecommunity………i ask please that some help be given to them to relocate to another caricom country………..please help them….its too tramatising………….for them…….change these two nurses work environment so that they can function 100% in their profession again………….