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Qualfon employees rushed to GPHC
Up to press time, some fourteen workers attached to Qualfon Guyana at Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara were patients at the Georgetown Public Hospital. They had been rushed there around 16:30 hrs yesterday for emergency medical attention after they collapsed approximately 20 minutes after the company had experienced a power outage.
One of the workers
The section of the building they occupied has no windows and only one door. The workers, some of whom are said to be asthmatic, started to faint in the stifling conditions.
About 600 workers comprise a shift. People said that the number of workers in that poorly ventilated section was close to that number. People started to show sign of stress, probably because of oxygen deprivation.
They were immediately rushed to the hospital where some of them were given oxygen and sent away. As news of the tragedy spread, onlookers gathered in front of the hospital emergency room.
Security guards at the hospital were even praying for the workers who were holding their heads, and many claiming that they were feeling cramps.
A supervisor who was at the hospital refused to divulge any information. And in a society where the superstitions abound, people began to talk about the building being constructed on an old cemetery and that the illnesses were due to supernatural conditions.
But the authorities debunked such claims.
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