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GPHC admits to bed scarcity

Mar 30, 2011 News

While management of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) admits to a shortage of beds in the Male Surgical Ward, there is the insistence that patients and relatives understand that although this problem is unfortunate, it cannot be avoided.
In response to an article published in the Tuesday, March 29, 2011 edition of the Kaieteur News captioned, ‘Patients forced to share bed in GPHC’, the hospital issued a press release informing that “the sharing of beds is not a choice but a reality which must be faced”.
The GHPC stated that as a result of the demolition of the Old Surgical block and later transferring patients into the temporary wards, the situation of adequate space and appropriate accommodation became a problem for the hospital’s administration.
Moreover, the GPHC stated that it cannot and will not refuse to admit a patient who requires admission for the sake of not having enough bed space. “Unfortunately, this discomfort will continue to be faced until the new in-patient facility is complete,” the statement continued.
According to the press release, recently the Minister within the Ministry of Health, Dr. Bheri Ramsaran, said that the new inpatient facility will be opened within a few weeks and this will obviously ease the burden of lack of space which is currently being experienced by patients and staff alike.
It was also indicated in the release that the new in-patient facility is supposed to accommodate two hundred and fourteen (214) patients “with each to a bed”.

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