Dear Editor,
I understand Mr Daleep Singh spent millions of dollars of his own money to fix the Intensive Care Unit and the Registry at Suddie Public Hospital. On his visit one day to the hospital he saw that gutters were falling off the roof top, and the ICU and Registry had no airconditioners. Mr Singh decided to buy airconditioners and tiles for the ICU; he mobilized his own carpenters and technicians to fix it. As a patient in the ICU for 4 days and nights I saw how clean and tidy the Cubans were keeping this unit. Every half an hour they would mop the floor and keep it sanitized to prevent any bacteria surviving there. The beds and sheets are clean and the Cubans are well trained in patients’ care.
Essequibo needs a state-of-the-art hospital; the one at Suddie is over 100 years old. The problem with this hospital is it doesn’t have an experienced management committee to put policies in place to correct the faults, and no one knows to whom they can complain. The former management committee under Ms Nandranie Coonjah was doing an excellent job and the hospital was managed better.
Coming back to Mr Deleep Singh, there are many more big businessmen like him who could help by adopting a ward or two, but they choose not to do so. When they get ill they go to a private hospital in Georgetown or out of the country for treatment.
Yours faithfully,
Mohamed Khan
