Food shortage hits Port Kaituma Hospital

The Port Kaituma Hospital in Region One has been affected by a food shortage for the past two weeks and according to reports patients who have no relatives in the area are suffering.

Stabroek News has been reliably informed that persons were forced to remove their relatives from the institution because of the shortage of food.

Efforts to contact regional official yesterday for comment proved futile. Presently there are four persons in the hospital who have no relatives in the