Leonora Hospital and its deficiencies… Expired drugs surface

Jun 04, 2013 News

More problems have surfaced at the Leonora Cottage Hospital even as investigations into the storage of a baby’s body in the facility’s fridge continue.

Some of the expired drugs

This time, Kaieteur News discovered that there are boxes of expired drugs stored at the facility, waiting to be dumped even though the pharmacy is short of critical drugs.
Kaieteur News visited the hospital recently and was told by staffers about the storage of a 28-week-old stillborn baby boy in the fridge that was used by workers to store their eatables.
Meanwhile, after receiving more complaints, this publication visited the hospital once again on Saturday last and saw large piles of expired drugs.
Apart from the expired drugs, a few beds at the facility have no mattresses while some are broken.
The Neonatal Unit, which specializes in the care of ill or premature neonates, has a padlock on its door. It has been closed for a “very long time”. The Maternity Unit is “out of order.”
“Why do only emergency deliveries when there is a Maternity and a Neonatal unit here?” a staff questioned.
Yesterday, Kaieteur News tried to contact the Minister of Health for a comment on the expired drugs at the facility but the calls went unanswered.