There are some people who still want a ‘specialty hospital’ to be built in Georgetown, who believe this is necessary and that such a facility will dramatically improve health in Guyana. There are two main arguments against this idea. The first is simply that hospitals actually have very little to do with health. In reality, hospitals are dedicated to dealing with sickness. Yes, these things are connected, but they are two fundamentally different states of being as anyone who has ever been sick will tell you; the way one feels when ill is dramatically and clearly different from the feeling of wellness.
The fact is that health is largely something that happens outside of the hospital or clinical setting.
