Diamond hospital gets high rating from parliamentary committee

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Hospital Director Kevin Mana speaking with members of the visiting Parliamentary Sector Committee on Social Services inside the pharmacy, where employees were busy at work packaging pills. (Photo by Arian Browne)
Hospital Director Kevin Mana speaking with members of the visiting Parliamentary Sector Committee on Social Services inside the pharmacy, where employees were busy at work packaging pills. (Photo by Arian Browne)

By Shakisa Harvey

Representatives of the Parlia-mentary Sectoral Committee on Social Services yesterday gave the East Demerara Regional Hospital—commonly referred to as the Diamond Diagnostic Centre—an 80% rating and stated that they were pleased with the condition of the facility.

However, Head of the Committee Indranie Chandarpal recommended a facelift and improved management to bring the hospital up to where it should be.

She stated that while most of the issues stemmed from shortcomings of the Regional Democratic Council (RDC), there are