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Commotion erupts at GPHC over “demons”
The usual loud screams and cries filled the environs of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) yesterday, but it was not because somebody had died. In fact, a family was fighting over a “demon-possessed boy.”
Outside the hospital’s Accident and Emergency (A&E) Unit, dozens gathered to get a glimpse of those who were crying, believing that the family might have lost a loved one.
A section of the onlookers during yesterday’s uproar.
The “throw-down drama,” as one female onlooker described it, was unnecessary and caused a great deal of disturbance to the sick.
“I don’t understand how people could bring dey personal story to the hospital like this. Everybody thinking that somebody probably died fuh these people or something, but is nah that. They just too damn ‘blackguarded’,” the woman told this newspaper yesterday.
As the 15-minute-long fuss continued, emergency patients were hindered from entering the A&E unit. But this was not as confusing as when family members tossed themselves on the ground close to the main access gate, obstructing ambulances from entering the hospital’s compound.
The commotion was actually an intense verbal battle between a mother and her children, over another family member who they said was “possessed by demons.”
Onlookers deemed the whole fiasco as an act brought from the National Cultural Centre to the hospital.
“Ah just can’t understand how Guyanese people could stay like duh. You come to a hospital to air your personal problem. We ain’t need to know. The people who are at this institution got things and people in here who actually dying, and who we have to worry about; we don’t need random people to come in the place and get on bad fuh no reason,” another spectator said.
According to a close friend of the aforementioned family, “the mother deh with a man, and apparently de daughters dem think that the man put evil on they brother, and de woman ain’t want to believe that she man could do that, suh is a whole big story with dem.”
The relative added, “Ah honestly don’t know why dey bring he hay. Ah tell dem fuh carry he to the Church on Durban Street, but dem ain’t listening. De woman seh that she believe in Jesus Christ and that nobody can’t put demon pon she son.”
“She wouldn’t hear a word against the man, and de children dem ain’t want to hear nothing good about he. Ah really can’t say why dey bring all dey story here. When dey done, the same possessed boy and all of dem gon leave, because the doctors can’t do anything for dem at the hospital,” the relative added.
Meanwhile, the police officers and guards at the hospital were all at a loss as to what caused the turmoil, and did not intervene.
“We thought somebody died, but they can’t come here and get on like this. The hospital is not the place fuh them things; they got to thrash duh out on de road,” a security personnel of the hospital maintained.
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