A daughter seeks help for ailing father

Jun 09, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
I write this letter to you seeking urgent help from the relevant health authorities for my father, Mr. Owen Munroe, who is suffering from enlarged hydrocele, swelling of the feet and other complications.
He is eighty-one years of age, and I am quite sure that Kaieteur News will publish this letter and some health official will respond and visit the home and rescue Mr. Munroe so his medical conditions can be access by a doctor. I took him to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation to the medical out patient department last year; he was seen by a doctor and referred to the surgical clinic. Doctor Purohit after seeing the enlarged hydrocele wrote on his card that he would be called, but to date he is waiting for that call.
Mr. Munroe resides at Lot 595 East Ruimveldt Housing Scheme, with his reputed wife Joyce Blair and three children. I was reliably informed that he is seriously ill and in urgent need of being attended to by a doctor. I am his eldest daughter; I used to take care of him, but was served with a court order to vacate the premises immediately by his reputed wife and to keep 500 yards away from the said home, so I am unable to visit him and have him seen by a doctor because of this order.
While his conditions begin to worsen, no one seems to have an interest in taking him for medical help. A team of specialist was to arrive in Guyana this year July from the Kettering Hospital in the USA and would be at the Davis Memorial Hospital to attend to such cases. I had him registered for the screening.
The morning I went to take him with a taxi he told me that the family told him not to go. He has a son that bullies him around and controls his life; ordering him around like a little boy and because of that he is afraid.
I asked a friend to call on June 2, 2010 to find out about my father’s condition and I heard through the phone his reputed wife saying he cannot come to the phone because his feet are swollen.
I know Kaieteur News will publish this letter and whatever the health officials has to do in getting him out of the home to seek medical help I know it will be done. He is being denied medical assistance and needs someone to rescue him.
They need more health visits to homes as many persons are suffering because of reluctance to have them see a doctor. The telephone number where Mr. Munroe resides is 231-0437
Yvette Munroe

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