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Administrator explains water issue at National Psychiatric Hospital
…says news item was mischievous
Administrator of the National Psychiatric Hospital (NPH), Leila Clarke-Daniels, has criticised a recent TVG Evening News report that there would have been strike action (sick out) by nurses due to the lack of potable water at the mental health institution.
Daniels described the news item as mischievous.
NPH Administrator Leila Clarke- Daniels
“Let me say to the naysayers— you know that there are some people who do not like to see progress. From time to time, we would experience a little bit of difficulties, but you know we will overcome them.”
The main pump at the hospital, she said, broke down recently. “We quickly had a meeting with the Region Six Administration and the Chief Executive Officer of the Berbice Regional Health Authority (BRHA)…They quickly agreed that they knew that the pump was old; it was over 20 years old and there is a likelihood that there is need for a new pump”.
The pump, she said, was purchased immediately from overseas. “To purchase such equipment, it has got to come from overseas. This was put into effect and we were promised that we will be given a new pump. We were kept up-to-date with the progress of acquiring a new pump.
“The hospital, in the meantime, had instituted relief measures. They were given water brought in by a fire tender that filled the wards way down at the back of the compound. We were still using the old pump…That pump, however, was just filtering the water to the kitchen.
“In the wards where the patients needed drinking water, they were given bottles— large bottles of water— on a daily basis”.
Chief Executive Officer of BRHA, Dr. Vishwa Mahadeo, said that he believes that somebody “was playing politics— not in the Guyana political sense, but in the local sense— They know that the pump was fixed and working but they wanted to give the impression that ‘if we did not say so, this would not have happened’”.
Clarke said that at the time “when the mischief was afoot, the pump was being put into operation and the base was laid since Saturday…we all knew that the new pump was here.”
She stated, too, that all during the period, the entire staff knew what was going on and “we all waited with expectation that the water will flow, shortly.
Workers fine- tuning the new pump at the NPH
“We are very happy. Even before the news article was aired on TV, the water was flowing!”
She said that the facility is now getting sufficient water. A new water treatment plant, she revealed, will soon be installed and come on stream.
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