Ramsaran, hospital staff ‘pained’ by barbershop baby experience

Dr Bheri Ramsaran

Minister of Health Dr Bheri Ramsaran yesterday said that his ministry and personnel at the Dr CC Nicholson Hospital were “pained by the experience”  in a report first carried in Monday’s edition of this newspaper that a barber had to deliver a baby since there was no staff at the aforementioned hospital.

He also said that the ministry would be “be looking into the report of the Stabroek News as the hospital has been successful in its operations since it re-commenced in 2010,” a GINA release stated.

On Saturday night last barber Devon Sam, who operates his business at Nabaclis, a few yards away from the hospital, was forced to deliver a baby boy after there was no one to attend to