We all deserve compassion when we are unwell

Jul 27, 2019 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

As the political rhetoric heats up in Guyana, please permit me a space in your newspaper to respond to a statement made on Freedom Radio 91.1 FM, July 23, 2019, on a programme hosted by Mr. Ganga Persaud, where one of the callers stated, “the President is acting don’t kay and when there is a problem he leave[s] the country”.
It is very disappointing to known how some Guyanese are finding a problem with the head of state leaving the country for a scheduled medical checkup, since President Granger was diagnosed in October2018 with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and he was undergoing treatment in Cuba.
Therefore, as result of that the President had to travel several times to Havana Cuba to and has successfully completed several rounds of chemotherapy for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
How petty and low can we stoop? I would like to refresh the caller and Mr. Ganga’s memory, who did not have the decency to admonish the caller to be respectful of President Granger.
The President is not the first president who has travelled out of Guyana to undergo medical attention. For example, the late president Dr. Cheddi Jagan, who suffered from a heart attack sought medical treatment overseas and former president now opposition leader was as airlifted to the United States to Florida hospital using a private luxury Learjet. Can we remember that?
Editor as a young Guyanese, I am disturbed at how callous we can be about another human being’s health, more so that of the President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana. We should desist from making rash statements, and understand that we are all human beings and we deserve compassion when we are unwell.

Sincerely yours
Ceion Rollox

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