The PPP Government and COVID-19

Aug 17, 2020 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
I was really hopeful with the installation of the new government, efforts to bring the COVID cases to a standstill would have been implemented right away.
However, this is a far cry because the cases averages at least 15 per day.
This is not good for a country like Guyana which lacks the facilities to deal with a surge in cases.
Already, you are hearing of patients leaving the isolation centres in places like Lethem to mingle with outsiders.
I would have expected that the government would have deployed the joint forces at border areas to police the porous borders.
The cases are climbing at an alarming rate instead of having a strict curfew we are having a relaxed curfew. Trinidad with less cases than Guyana have taken drastic measures and now pushed back school as far as December 31st and mask wearing is now mandatory in public.
The government should have moved swiftly to equip the COVID hospital at Liliendaal, leave politics aside as it relates to the facility.
I am sure it’s way better than some of the hospitals and health centres we have in Guyana.
I am in disbelief to see mining is open again, in my mind the government is only concerned about kick starting the economy at the cost of peoples lives.
I would like to see the government stance as it relates to acquiring Remdesivir for treatment for critically ill patients, their position in acquiring a potential vaccine, robust contact tracing, making mask wearing in public mandatory among other measures.
I urge the administration to pay keen attention to the pandemic, dont let it be a stain on the PPP/C government because the people will remember it at the polls.
B. John

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