Barber turned ‘midwife’ unhappy with condition of Nabaclis hospital

Devon Sam attending to a customer

Thirty-seven years ago Devon Sam was delivered at what was then known as the Nabaclis Hospital, but today he bemoans the condition of the “upgraded hospital” whose closure last weekend saw him taking on the job of a midwife for a few minutes and delivering a baby.

“Is a lot of things happen at that hospital and is only now it going in the papers because the baby born at my shop,” Sam told the Sunday Stabroek of the Dr CC Nicholson Hospital & Health Centre which is located a short distance from his ‘Top of All Barber Shop’ in Nabaclis,