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The Health Minister is trying to blindfold us with spectacles

Nov 22, 2012 Letters

 

 

Dear Editor,
It is funny yet distasteful for the Minister of Health to try to make light of the matter in which his Ministry failed to get its act together to send a flight to evacuate that young lady from the Mabaruma Hospital.
The Minister must accept the blame for presiding over a failed mechanism. A system should be put in place when these emergencies arise.  He should not try to bully his way out of this. Saying that they “don’t shake pilots off trees” ,  “why should a woman’s guts be ripped out?” and “we probably need to push more doctors into the bush who can probably deal with more serious cases but why should we be having these cases”, sends a message of insensitivity to an already tense and very emotional situation.  In another section of the press, the Minister was quoted as mouthing more drivel, the likes that maybe the Government would have to buy its own airplanes just to do medical evacuations.
The Doctor and his staff at the Hospital did a good job of stabilizing the patient.  The time the Doctor turned up at the Hospital is not an issue now, because when he turned up, he turned on and functioned like he wanted to save a life. He prepped the patient for the emergency flight which, as we can now surmise, was never on the cards. I am sure that there were pilots in the trees waiting to do that flight, but the Minister was too shortsighted and lacking in proper systems management to “shake them off”. The aircraft operators at Ogle have been purchasing planes like rice. Would they delve into that expenditure without an adequate complement of pilots? They did not buy planes as ornaments.
My three-year-old would tell you that the Minister of Health is trying to blindfold us with spectacles.
Does the Ministry of Health owe the flight operators at Ogle? Has any reporter tried to get an explanation from the aircraft owners? They too may have their story – the correct story. The pestle is not the only thing in the mortar here.
May the soul of Zaleena Shaddick rest in perpetual peace.
Concerned citizen

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