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Suddie Hospital without dental injections

Jun 21, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,

The Suddie Hospital is presently without dental injections and when supplies would be made available remains unknown much to the inconvenience, suffering and hardship being endured by persons who keep visiting the institution to do “extraction” on a daily basis.
But this information was not being provided to those affected as they kept converging and crying out with excruciating pains in what was described as an overbearing and unacceptable situation for just waiting in vain all the time. In the public domain concerns were raised by them of being treated like fools and being pushed around from the advice given to come back tomorrow. Only to add insult to injury to the unbearable condition and to be so misleading knowing fully well that the impending supplies remained uncertain when better needs to be done.
They also bemoaned the unnecessary punishment meted out to them with nothing being done by providing any form of treatment like pain killers to bring relief to their predicament for as long as four consecutive days in waiting with their frustration and stress mounting all the time. From their opinion, the interest of the public is involved here and there was no need to keep it as a secret when the true position was necessary to be made known to them to understand what really is causing the problem.
Some of them with financial means decided to travel to the city to have their extraction done but what would happen to the impecunious ones? Enquiries made revealed that the hospital is faced with a shortage of dental injections and instead of hiding it, this should have been made known to them so as to avoid the waste of time and travelling money to keep going at the institution from all parts of the Region # 2 district. No time frame was given as to when supplies would be replenished. While the reason given was well accepted and disseminated, the main concern being expressed now is for the Ministry of Health to expedite the needed supplies of Dental injections for the service to be restored to normalcy with the sooner the better. “Who feels it knows it” and the painful conditions emerging from tooth ache should never be underestimated with the only remedy in my opinion being extraction. With thanks,
B. Persaud

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