Following reports of patients being turned away from the Diamond Diagnostic Centre, an investigation into the administration of the facility will be undertaken, Minister of Public Health Dr George Norton says.
“I am not happy with what is going on at Diamond. An investigation will be launched,” Norton told Stabroek News yesterday. His statement comes in the wake of complaints raised by persons including the husband of a woman injured in an accident at Coverden, East Bank Demerara during the wee hours of yesterday morning, that they were turned away from the medical facility.
The Coverden accident claimed the lives of 23-year-old Rudolph Bess and 16-year-old Hasranie Persaud. “We took the lady to Diamond first and a nurse just peep out and say ‘Don’t bring she hay, dem ain’t gat doctor or nurse. Carry she Georgetown (GPHC)’,” one woman, Ingrid, recounted of
