Dear Editor,
I am citizen of Guyana who has been living in New Amsterdam for over thirty years, and times have changed as well as systems, conditions, and technology too. Therefore government services should do the same. Editor, you should visit the New Amsterdam clinic which mothers and their babies have to attend each month. I am the father of a four-month-old son. For four months now I have been taking my son to this place they call a clinic. There is no seating accommodation and no place for the babies to lie so they can be changed. Then to compound things, the conditions are really miserable with garbage along the fence and the drains always smelling. About 80-100 babies come here every month. Then the government speaks about modernized hospitals and better health care; well, something is seriously wrong here. The conditions here need to be taken care of before an epidemic breaks out.
Yours faithfully,
Steve Kissoon
Editor’s note
We are sending a copy of this letter to Minister of Health Dr Bheri Ramsaran for any comment he might wish to make.
