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Port Kaituma has many health woes

Nov 01, 2008 Letters

Dear Editor,
There are some areas of concerns that need to be addressed at Port Kaituma Hospital and the Port Kaituma Dormitory School in Region One.
For some time now, the hospital and the dormitory school have been experiencing a constant shortage of food supply for the patients in the hospital and the live-in students at the dorms; and also cleaning and other materials for both institutions.
At the moment the hospital only takes in emergency cases and they are referred to Georgetown for treatment.
The patients who are referred to Georgetown and the accompanying nurses also experience difficulties with the air service.
These services are usually supplied by the business community at Port Kaituma, to the local administration on a credit basis. But, the business community has not been paid in a timely manner, some as far back as 2007.
In their own way of protest for the delayed payments some of them have stopped, or reduced the supply including the airline service which is definitely affecting both institutions.
To ensure that the institutions function, the administration at times sources items from the business people in the Mabaruma District which is over (60) sixty miles away and at an additional cost, because they have to use river transportation that would require over (35) thirty five gallons of gasoline for one trip and the cost of gasoline in the interior is always more expensive than it is in the city.
It would not be wise to take emergency patients to Mabaruma and then to Georgetown since the Mabaruma Hospital is also experiencing similar difficulties.
It is only right for the local administration to address these concerns urgently so that the business people will be happy and the services will continue as per normal.
D. Fernandes M.P.

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