PPP leaders are modern day Napoleons

May 05, 2014 Letters

Dear Editor,
The US Government in a travel advisory updated in March 2014 has this to say about the medical facilities in Guyana. “Medical care in Guyana does not meet U.S. standards. Care is available for minor medical conditions, although quality is very inconsistent. Emergency care and hospitalization for major medical illnesses or surgery are very limited, due to a lack of appropriately trained specialists, below standard in-hospital care, and poor sanitation.” (Source: http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/country/guyana.html)
This is a damming indictment on the Ramotar administration which continues to follow in the footsteps of the Jagdeo regime by recklessly spending billions of the taxpayers’ money, but having very little human development to show for it. In the 2014 Budget speech, the Minister of Finance bragged that since the Ramotar administration came to office, they spent “a total of $89.8billion in the Education and Health Sectors” with almost half of that being spent in the Health Sector. Where are these billions if the ambulance service in Guyana is limited to transportation without any medical care and is mostly not available to members of the public? Why child birth and simple illnesses continue to result in death at the public hospitals? Why the public hospitals are constantly out of drugs? The Jagdeo/Ramotar regime has turned Guyana into a fifth world country.
The US Government chided the Ramotar administration for the emergency number for ambulances (913) that is “not always operational” and to add salt to the reputational wound, Guyana was cited for not always having an ambulance to respond to emergency. We expect such poor services in a “donkey kart” economy.
Some $17 billion was spent on the Health Sector in 2013 but very little was spent on the human capital in the system; sanitation or ensuring consistent high quality health care. Now we understand why all PPP leaders seek mandatory medical care for themselves and their family members in the United States and Canada but lecture the rest of the public, as the sitting Minister of Health did to Colwyn Harding to seek local medical care. But the truth remains that Mr. Harding might have been dead today in that death zone called the Georgetown Hospital if he did not seek medical help from Jamaica. The former President spent millions of the taxpayers’ money when he sought medical treatment in Florida for having high fever—a very simple illness. Can anyone in Guyana imagine why the former President chartered a special plane at a cost of over G $7 million to take him to Florida for such a simple illness that could have be treated in Guyana? This exposes the hypocrisy of the regime, particularly the Minister of Health, who lectures Guyanese to seek medical care at the Public hospitals when those in the regime seek medical care in the U.S for simple illnesses.
The question to ask is why most of the top PPP leaders choose to have their babies born overseas and attend to their medical visits overseas when in their own words Guyana has a proper functional health care system?
But as Animal Farm taught us, some pigs think we must do as they say but not do as they do. The PPP leaders really think they are modern day Napoleons from the Animal Farm but the people know differently and do not trust them and will not be kind to them in the next elections. Why do you think they have not called Local Government Elections for almost two decades?
Dr. Asquith Rose and Harish Singh

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