Region One hospitals have vehicles – Ramsaran

Minister of Health Dr Bheri Ramsaran has rejected suggestions that hospitals in Matarkai sub region in Region One are without vehicles, insisting that a vehicle was sent to the Pakera Hospital at the behest of then president Bharrat Jagdeo in 2011.

He was on Monday responding to a question by A Partnership for National Unity Member of Parliament Richard Allen who posed a question for written reply to the minister. He asked the minister whether he could say why the Port Kaituma and Matthew’s Ridge hospitals have been without vehicles for five years and when the situation would be corrected.

“His Excellency Bharrat Jagdeo visited Matthew’s Ridge in March 2011. In