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Local Government Ministry to tackle WRDH issues

May 30, 2013 News

Local Government and Regional Development Minister, Ganga Persaud, has promised to address the current issues affecting the West Demerara Regional Hospital, (WDRH).
Staffers of Regional Health facility have made claims that their plight is being ignored by those at regional levels citing that the Region Three’s Regional Executive Officer, Donald Gajraj, has been unwilling to cooperate with the Hospital’s administration.
However, yesterday, Minister Ganga Persaud said that the hospital administration is required to first submit a written report to the Local Government Ministry before necessary action is undertaken.
“I am not aware of all the issues but whenever regional state institutions have any such matters they first need to submit a written report before any action is taken.”
Employees of WDRH have publicly expressed their dissatisfaction in a manner of which the Regional state institution is being dealt with.   The staff claims that there are insufficient and inadequate facilities for workers and sometimes patients have suffered the same fate.
Recently, a lamp post collapsed in the vicinity of the hospital, tearing down the northern shed attached to the facility and disrupted the supply of electricity to pertinent wards. In the midst of a power outage to the maternity and female surgical wards, staff nurses and midwives were forced to use the light from their cell phones to conduct a delivery.
Nurses at the hospital have been vigorously protesting the conditions in which they required to work. They have listed the lack of suitable nurses’ toilets and safe nurses’ rooms, the lack of shoes and clothing for uniforms and poor waste disposal as just some of their problems.
This newspaper understands that the workers and those at administrative levels are in constant disagreement whenever appeals for urgent intervention are made. This lack of resolve has resulted in workers suffering most.
“They completely ignore our complaints… their attitude towards staff can be quite unprofessional,” one female staffer said.
This, she said, has resulted in the attacks by stray dogs on those working or walking in the hospital compound.
There was the incident of a pregnant staff nurse being robbed by bandits while she was exiting the hospital compound.
Several calls made to the office of Regional Executive Officer for a comment proved unsuccessful.

 

 

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