The state of affairs in the health sector is disturbing and sad

Nov 06, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
The sacred value of life is having it’s worth diminished by unending crime that deeply disturbs the mind by it’s horrific nature, the road deaths caused by those who continue to flaunt the traffic rules, the unprofessionalism of those who hold jobs to serve, to protect, to care, but lives are needlessly lost and a nation is left at the crossroads, not sure what to do to correct the wrongs and make it all right.
Where it all began or how it began is difficult to comprehend for people who are trained professionals in their field of work and qualified to hold those positions in the corridors of law enforcement, teaching, social services and nursing can fail so abysmally to uphold and perform their duties.
That void has left us as a people who seemed to have lost their way or whom time has left behind and who seemed not to care to make an honest effort to bridge the divide between a true civilized society and a pretentious one so strongly embraced.
It’s all about the paycheck, about what they can make of their lives and those whom they are paid to serve, to show care and concern for are left in the wilderness to suffer.
Lives are lost or cruelly interrupted, children’s minds are scarred beyond repair, new-born babies are left motherless, murderers walk the streets free and life is suppose to go on, as though it’s a norm for these intrusions.
The ineptitude, unethical and lackadaisical show of attitude of those who seem to think professionalism is just a word with no real meaning and cannot or would not be practiced by them should really not be allowed to continue.
The blood of citizens are on their hands. A social worker or teacher should dispense their duties with dedication and commitment, with genuine care and concern for the children, whose welfare and foundations for a good future are in their hands, strong helpful hands that can hold the little hands and help them along a safe, smooth path. How much does it take to smile, to show love and care?
The state of affairs in the health sector is surely disturbing and sad. Too many young mothers have lost their lives to carelessness, heartlessness and negligence of those in the nursing staff involved in their deaths. Nurses are supposed to be caring, compassionate and gentle with mellow voices.
Nothing can ease pain or give hopes for life more than a few, kind comforting words. A pregnant woman who carries a child for nine months and has to go through so many complexities in her health and at the time of delivery, the indescribable labour pain holds captive every sense, every nerve in her body and in those hours she needs all the comfort she can get, but is shut up with harsh words, handled with rough hands and ignored in her pleas for help from those who were trained to give care and comfort.
She is made to suffer more than she should, to bleed to death and a new-born baby is left motherless. It perplexes the mind to understand how nurses, themselves women, can be so inhuman towards their own.
The Minister of Health cannot continue to make excuses and issue apologies and hollow promises of investigations. Those are meaningless words to families who have suffered loss of loved ones.
A life is not a toy to play with and then discard, it’s priceless. Too much in the past has been allowed to be covered with sheets of dust and be trodden on. Those sheets of dust need to be yanked from under the heavy feet, like it was done at the Ministry of Human and Social Services.
Changes have to be boldly initiated, inefficiency and incompetence seriously addressed and those found culpable of wrong doing be dealt with decisively, for only then can the wrongs be righted.
Maureen Singh

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