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Student Nurses rushed to hospital after suspected food poisoning

Mar 04, 2012 News

 

 

Almost the entire batch of the Nursing Assistant Programme Class 46 at the New Amsterdam Nursing School at Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam, and more than half of the batch of Professional Nursing students of batch 78, on Friday, had to seek medical attention at  the New Amsterdam Hospital for suspected cases of food poisoning.
Some of the nurses started to feel unwell earlier in the week and were treated and sent home. However the situation escalated on Thursday when a number of the Nurses at the school began to fell unwell and started to experience bouts of diarrhea and vomiting. This continued even at home.
The situation took a turn for the worse on Friday when almost all of the nurses at the school had to be rushed to the hospital after they started to experience more severe bouts of bowel movement and vomiting.
The nurses were sent to the hospital, but had to find their own transportation. At the hospital, the nurses were given two tablets (Gravol and Flagyl) and told that they would be alright. Most of the nurses complain of feeling weak. Some of the student nurses again took ill on Saturday and had to be rushed to the hospital for further treatment.
A number of nurses sought their own treatment at Private medical institutions.
Some nurses had also taken ill about two weeks ago and had to be rushed to the New Amsterdam Hospital, where they were treated and sent away.
Relatives of the nurses are not happy with the response of the health authorities and the treatment meted out to the Nurses. They say that if these persons are being trained to become caregivers and this is the way they are being treated then one wonders what is to come. “The government talk is only talk and lip service,” one relative stated.
“Every week the health people in Berbice are on the Television talking about this and that and they can’t take care of their own, this only smacks of incompetence”.
A few persons sell all kinds of eatables in front of the Nursing School where some of the student nurses would have their meals. The area where the nursing school is situated at Angoy’s Avenue is also very unhygienic. Students use water from some over head tanks situated in the compound and that could also be a reason for the students’ illness.

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