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GPHC dubs KN report inaccurate

Oct 07, 2009 News

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has described as erroneous and misleading some aspects of an article carried in the October 6, issue of Kaieteur News under the headline, “Teenager sustains broken jaw at school
This newspaper had reported on a alleged delay of the hospital in tending to a patient suffering from a broken jaw.
This newspaper had reported that the patient, 13-year-old Shawanda Mohamed, was given pain killers instead of the requisite medical procedures required to aid a broken jaw.
However, in a press statement issued yesterday, GPHC claimed that these statements were untrue and there are procedures the hospital follows.
According to the statement the patient was given the appropriate medication for the ailment from which she suffered. It was also outlined that any patient with injuries to the face or mandible (fractures or broken bones) must be treated by a Maxillofacial Surgeon, who is attached to
the GPHC, but is primarily based at the Cheddi Jagan Dental School, to which the patient will be referred.
Additionally, it was noted that in the event that the individual requires surgery, such
operations cannot be performed immediately if there is swelling. The swelling must subside before further treatment can be administered.
According to the statement, individuals who are taken to the A & E Department are treated by the doctor according to the severity of their ailment and not on a first-come, first-served basis.
However, the father of the patient, Feroze Mohamed, had told this newspaper that since last Thursday his daughter was not given any definite treatment, right up to the time of the publication.
“They only giving she pain killers, and when it wear off, she is in terrible pain,” Mohamed had told this newspaper on Monday.

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