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Drs. Ramsammy and Ramsarran should resign or be dismissed

Oct 28, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
WPA believes that now the Health Minister Leslie Ramsammy has finally come around to accepting responsibility for the failure of the state’s medical services to provide a sufficiently high standard of patient care in the facilities run by the government, the political overlords of the Ministry of Health should do the decent thing and resign their portfolios.
The resignations of the two primary political faces at the Ministry of Health will set desirable standards for others in whose charge rests the lives and livelihood of Guyanese, but who have either underperformed or lack the capacity to function in their appointed portfolios.
For far too long developments at the state run hospitals have conveyed to the public at large the impression that all is not well in those institutions. Recent publicity over the frequency of deaths in the health sector’s maternity sections have given rise to grave public concern and triggered calls for investigations in what relatives have called the untimely deaths of their loved ones.
WPA believes that the behaviour of the Ministry of Health and the hospitals authorities in response to the calls for investigations into the deaths, have been disgraceful. They have been more concerned with covering up rather that trying to get to the root causes of the problem.
Unfortunately, it required several deaths for the Ministry of Health to come to the realisation that something is seriously wrong with the system. What the Ministry is now trying to do is identify scapegoats to be blamed for the deaths instead of commissioning a comprehensive review of the operations of the health sector. This review must examine areas of weaknesses and failures, the length of time they have been known to exist and why, the sufficiency and competence of personnel and the ability of the administrators to function efficiently.
Until this kind of review is done anything that the ministry does will only be putting plasters on sores and more lives will be lost as a result of a non-friendly patient care system.
WPA therefore calls on President Jagdeo to demonstrate his concern for the deterioration in the health system by demanding the resignations of Leslie Ramsammy and Bheri Ramsarran or to dismiss them forthwith.
Desmond Trotman
Working People’s Alliance

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