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Guyana has slipped into depths of inhumanity and hopelessness

Aug 04, 2015 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
It is six months since returning home to the United Kingdom after having visited Ward 2C in the Georgetown Hospital on the 15 December, 2014.
I was there visiting a relative in the ward, which was a small six-bed unit of very sick and vulnerable female in-patients.
It was a horrifying experience for me to witness male family members attending to their partially/wholly unclothed family who were patients in the ward in the full view of visitors, one being me.
In one corner was a nude elderly in-patient having her very private needs attended to by her family members. One patient’s bed was saturated with her own fluids while her husband attempted to address her needs with as much dignity as he could muster. There was another husband in a similar situation.
While in an almost shocked state, I went to the nurses’ station, requesting screens for the ward. Initially, the staff members stared at me as if I were an object from outer space, speaking in another language. After a few minutes, a nurse appeared with an obsolete and rusty contraption which was unable to protect a woman’s dignity.
These images are a recurrent feature in my memory of the experience. I wonder how Guyana managed to slip to such depths of inhumanity and hopelessness, in total contravention of those patients’ human rights. I continue to wonder! God bless you all.
M.B.

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