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Oct 15, 2017 Letters
Dear Editor,
I’m writing to complain about a certain doctor. I have named him in my orginal letter but asked that this not be reproduced in the published version; I don’t want nthe paper to face a court order. I do not want to state in which of the ten Regions in Guyana he practices since he is licensed by the Medical Council to do legal abortions. If I name the region, and he is the only one in that region who is so licensed, then if he disputes this account here, he can sue for libel. I am prepared at this time to say he is not based in Regions, 2, 3, 4.
If the doctor challenges this complaint here, I highly doubt his victim patients will come forward to give testimonies. Nevertheless, I will highlight this issue because I want Kaieteur News to know what is going on in this particular Region with this unconscionably dangerous doctor .
About 8 months ago, my mother in law discovered that she was pregnant (1 month) and decided that she needed to terminate the baby. Thus she visited this doctor. She paid $15,000 and supposedly had her abortion done. Two months after she was still feeling as if she is pregnant so she decided to have an ultrasound done. To her dismay, the ultrasound showed that she is 3 months pregnant which means that the doctor took her money and didn’t do the abortion or whatever the case is but she was assured that her pregnancy has terminated and that she will still have feelings of pregnancy for a short while.
When my mother-in-law visited her general medical practitioner and related to him what transpired, she was told by that doctor that she is not the first one who has complained about this doctor and his deception. Again, I highly doubt
the general practitioner will testify against this man. Two months ago, a friend of mine has been experiencing intense abdominal pain and visited this questionable doctor for a check-up. An ultrasound was done, she was given pain killers, was told that everything was okay. Days after, the pain persisted so she revisited the doctor, again another ultrasound was done and she was told everything was okay.
As the pain intensified, she decided to visit a private hospital. Upon examination an ultrasound was done, which showed that her appendix was ruptured and started to rot. She was given emergency surgery. No action was taken against this erring doctor. My point is that this medical problem was life threatening and this fraudulent doctor could have been the indirect cause of this woman’s demise. I am asking if Kaieteur News can assign someone like Freddie Kissoon to investigate and do a column that exposes this man. I hope through that column the authorities will act. This doctor needs to be confronted before patients die
Aggrieved daughter-in-law
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