‘I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy’

After learning that she had been infected with the chikungunya virus, a New Amsterdam woman was later told by a doctor at the New Amsterdam Hospital that the joint pains she was experiencing could last for two years.

The woman, who is a staffer of the Ministry of Education in Region Six, said this news was disclosed to her by the doctor after he told her she had been infected with the virus two months ago.

She said the hospital had run several tests on her after she was taken there with severe muscle and joint pains. A few days later,