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West Demerara Regional Hospital…Patients’ relatives, nurses concerned about TB, HIV, general patients mix
Relatives of patients at the West Demerara Regional Hospital are calling on the Minister
A section of the ward that is being used to house TB and HIV patients.
of Health to investigate the circumstances that has HIV and Tuberculosis patients housed in the same block with other patients at the hospital.
According to sources in the hospital, the hospital administration decided to remove the patients from the Male Medical Ward and surgical section. These included TB, HIV and other patients being placed in the same block.
“This is where more than 30 patients will be in one atmosphere closely with various sicknesses,” one nurse related.
The hospital explained that the patients were removed from the Male Medical Ward because it needs repair to be done to the building.
Relatives of patients said, that nurses recommended that the new male medical ward which was recently completed should have been used to house the tuberculosis patients, since such a virus is air borne and can be contagious.
“Now regular patients who just have a severe flu or any other injuries can be exposed to TB just because the administration doesn’t care to take this into consideration,” another nurse noted. “The place so small that between bed spaces there is no space to walk.”
It was further disclosed that the hospital administration placed two different wards into one block and this is dangerous to patient’s health. “Imagine we also have a female medical ward that has no privacy and no door. Anybody passing can see them and both females and males use one toilet facility…in the male medical you can’t put all types of patients together.”
In 2010, the hospital benefited from a $43M project which entailed the complete rehabilitation of the inpatient surgical block which houses the maternity ward, two surgical theatres, and the male and female surgical wards.
Another $25M project was spent to see the complete rehabilitation of the Male and Female Medical block. Another $9M was spent in 2011 towards the rehabilitation of the outpatient/accident emergency department, which is yet to be completed.
When Minister of Health, Dr Bheri Ramsaran was contacted, he said to email him questions and he would reply, such was done, and no reply was received.
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