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Ailing man dies at Parika stelling while waiting for ambulance

Apr 01, 2012 News

 

The relative of a Bartica resident is calling on the relevant authority to conduct a thorough investigation into an incident which some feel led to the death of a man.
According to reports, Ignatius Charter, 43, of Byderabo Road, Bartica along with three other patients were being transported to the Georgetown Public Hospital. This publication was told that the three patients were accompanied by at least two nurses in a speedboat.
Sources say that the officials at the Bartica Hospital made proper arrangement for the patient to be collected at the Parika Stelling with an ambulance from the Georgetown Public Hospital. However, when the speedboat arrived at the Parika Stelling there was no ambulance in place.
Hence, the nurses as well as the three patients, who were all in serious conditions, were forced to wait for some two hours on the Parika Stelling, much to their surprise and discomfort. According to reports, Charter died before the ambulance arrived.
Persons related to this publication that when the ambulance arrived the attendants informed the nurses that they will not be transporting the dead man to Georgetown. This angered persons who stood looking on. Many of them then insisted that the ambulance transport the man.
The ambulance driver acquiesced and the attendants were forced to transport Charter along with the other patients to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
However, this incident has raised many questions by not only the dead man’s relatives but also by persons who witnessed the ordeal. They are questioning why there was not better coordination on the part of the Georgetown Public Hospital.
This has also raised the issue of medical evacuation from the area with aircrafts.

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