Latest update April 4th, 2025 12:14 AM
Nurses protest shabby conditions at West Demerara Hospital
– Say pigs and dogs live in the compound
Nurses of the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) early yesterday staged a sit-in at the health institute’s compound to register their disapproval with the conditions they are being forced to work under.
Bearing placards, the protesters stood quietly outside the Accident and Emergency Unit awaiting the outcome of a meeting between the acting administrator, Sanjay Persaud, Region Three Regional Executive Officer, Donald Gajraj, and a representative from Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU).
The protesters yesterday
“No proper nurses’ toilet and unsafe nurses’ room”; “No shoes and uniform allowance since January 2012”; “No privacy for patients, Poor waste disposal,” were some of the sentiments displayed on the placards yesterday.
The protest saw more than 30 nurses in the protest line. Very few were attending to patients. Although the nurses who were protesting were hesitant to speak, they hinted that “poor working conditions is one of the reasons and that “there are dogs in here biting us up and no water to drink.”
When Kaieteur News approached a senior nurse who was in charge of yesterday’s shift for a comment, she hid in her office and told her assistant to say she was not in despite her being spotted peeping at the demonstrators from her office window.
The hospital administrator could not be reached yesterday for a comment but according to Gajraj, “the union was here and we have solved the issue.” He terminated the interview by saying he was in a meeting.
A nurse, who preferred not to be named, said, “The hospital should employ people and not wild animals. The administration does not know how to speak with people, they bark.”
Similar Articles
THE BLUNT OF THE DAY
Sports
Features/Columnists
A coalition of shared disgrace
Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The APNU and the AFC deserve each other. They deserve to be shackled together in a coalition... more
The U.S. “Joining” the Commonwealth: an unreasonable expectation
By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News- Recent media stories have suggested that King Charles III could “invite” the United... more
Weekend Cartoon
