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GPHC eye department begs improvements

May 13, 2012 News

 

Despite constant appeals to replace the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)’s Eye Department operating suite with its old, rusted and badly damaged instruments, nothing is being done, says Ophthalmologist Dr. George Norton.
According to Dr. Norton, with this year’s budgetary allocation of $50M to the hospital to purchase medical equipment, management should but at least buy some new ones for the department.
“The Wet Field Cautery machine has been broken for more than a year…the boast of doing phacoemulsification cataract extraction operation is something of the past because the machine is broken and cannot be replaced,” the ophthalmologist said.
He said that the authorities are not purchasing those consumables like balance salt sodium, the intraocular solution, Miochol, necessary for proper cataract operations. In addition, the adequate types and amounts of sutures are not available.
“Not even the suitable needles for retrobulbar injections are being purchased, the anesthetic solution is not of correct strength,” he said.
Highlighting the poor accommodation for patients, Dr. Norton stated that the female eye ward could only hold two beds, has no windows and one door. In some instances, female patients are placed in the male ward, which has four beds.
He noted that previously, the male ward had 40 beds and female ward had 20. They were separated. There was a nurse’s station- a feature that no longer exists today. In addition, there are no dressing and storage areas.
Dr. Norton, who is also A Partnership for National Unity’s Parliamentarian, stated, “The eye trained nurses are moved to other areas while nurses with no eye training are made to attend to eye patients…They, many times, have refused to so do for they know not what to do and how to do it.”

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