Doctors and nurses at the Suddie Hospital are being forced to carry out emergency surgeries in a “shaky and unsafe makeshift” theatre, where renovations are ongoing following the collapse of the roof last month.
This is according to Arnold Adams, Chairman of the Regional Health Committee for Region Two, who called the collapse of the roof an example of how public health is being neglected in the region.
In a telephone interview yesterday, Adams chided Regional Executive Officer (REO) Rupert Hopkinson for his “slothfulness” in addressing the existing issues. He related that the problems at the Suddie Hospital have been longstanding and though recommendations have been made to the REO repeatedly, efforts to address them were either limited or non-existent.
