Discarding of Specialty Hospital ‘myopic’ – Ramsaran

Embattled former Minister of Health Bheri Ramsaran yesterday criticized the government for its scrapping of the scandal-plagued Specialty Hospital initiated by the previous PPP/C government.

Making his contribution to the 2015 Budget debate, Ramsaran questioned government’s decision to scrap projects in the heath sector including the specialty hospital. According to Ramsaran, every transformative project embarked on by the former PPP/C government was pillaged by the persons who now make up the APNU+AFC government including the specialty hospital which was erased from the 2015 budget.

“What a shame, what a shame,” he said even as he declared the scrapping as myopic and as vindictiveness overcoming reason and enlightenment especially when over US$4M has been invested in the project. “1800 pile strips driven and a lot of other preparatory works [have] already [been] done, why should we