Family finds broken glass in teen’s stitched wounds after hospital discharge

Christopher Naipaul

A week after his discharge from hospital, accident victim Christopher Naipaul’s relatives discovered pieces of broken glass in his wounds, which had been stitched and bandaged.

“People does talk good about the public hospital but like I really don’t know what to say,” said Naipaul’s mother, Amanda Lam, who is questioning the service which is being offered by Guyana’s premier health institution, the Georgetown Public Hos-pital (GPH).

Lam and her son, who is 17, were both injured in an accident on July 31st, at Houston, East Bank Demerara, where a