Regional Chairman of Region One (Barima-Waini) Brentnol Ashley has denied that the Mabaruma Public Hospital has a shortage of any medication to treat snake bites and scorpion stings.
Ashley’s comments were made following allegations by the family of four-year-old Keishon Campbell, of Mabaruma, who succumbed to scorpion sting, that the hospital did not have medication to treat him.
Peter Persaud, of The Amerindian Action Movement of Guyana, in a recent letter to Stabroek News, also claimed that the hospital “is desperately in need of medicines” to treat patients bitten by snakes and stung by scorpions.
