Doctors refuse to give up crumbling quarters

Michael Khan

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) doctor’s quarters on Waterloo Street, Georgetown is literally falling apart around the doctors still living there but they are refusing to go until they are given alternative housing.

The doctors, who are attached to the GPHC and the Health Ministry, were issued an eviction order by hospital Chief Executive Officer Michael Khan late last year, giving them up to December 31, 2012 to vacate the building. Summarising the order, one doctor said they were told to “pay up your light bills. Pay up your phone bill. Give up your keys and move out!”

Speaking to this newspaper, Khan said that the order was issued because the building needed to be renovated. He stated that the