While hypertension and eclampsia remain the two leading causes of maternal deaths in Guyana, the Chief Medical Officer feels more has to be done to improve the attitude of the country’s nurses as way too many complaints are received from mothers.
“Nurses’ attitudes and patients’ outlook of the institution go hand in hand and it is sad and difficult to understand when reports are made of rude nurses… We have to work with the nursing fraternity…,” CMO, Dr Shamdeo Persaud,
