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GPHC attendant critical after two vehicle smash-up
A 33-year-old attendant attached to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) is in a critical condition and her relatives are upset since the health institution apparently does not have a bed in its Intensive Care Unit to put the woman who works there.
At around 12:00hrs on Sunday, Nicola London, a mother of four, of Lot 8 Paradise,
London at the hospital yesterday.
East Coast Demerara was in a route 45 minibus heading to the bus park when a car, PPP 8025 ran into the back of the minibus at Camp and Lamaha Streets.
London and several other persons were rushed to the GPHC where she remained in a critical condition and the other patients were discharged.
Yesterday, London’s relatives were upset. They claimed that the woman is a staff member at the facility but she still cannot be put on a bed in the ward in which she was supposed to be placed. The mother of four is unconscious and is on a life support machine in the Accident and Emergency Unit (A&E). She was supposed to be transferred to the hospital’s ICU since Sunday but because the ward in congested, she remained in the A&E.
“She is working here and they don’t have a bed to put her on. How is she going to get the right care in the A&E? They have a bed there and attached her to a machine,” the injured woman’s family told Kaieteur News yesterday.
London’s mother, Cicely, said that the doctors did not tell her anything about her daughter. “They are only telling us that she will be ok. That’s all but when we see her, she is on a life-machine and she is not responding to anyone.”
This publication was told that the drivers for both vehicles were sent on bail and have to visit the station at 10:00am every day.
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