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– Health Minister promises to launch probe Employees at the Leonora Cottage Hospital, West Coast Demerara got a shock of their lives when they found out that the fridge they use to store their eatables,Adidas Craig Smith Jersey, was turned into a temporary mortuary two Wednesdays ago.On the night of May 15, last,Cheap NFL Jerseys, midwives at the hospital delivered a 28-week-old still-born baby boy. The dead infant was placed in a black plastic bag and stored in the freezing section of the fridge until the following day when it was taken to a mortuary.Medical staffers claimed that the dead child was removed from the fridge at 06:00am on Thursday, May 16,Wholesale Cheap Jerseys, and no one bothered to clean the fridge or inform the other employees who would have taken over from those who worked the night shift.“It’s those staff who got friends that worked the night shift told them what really happened. We would have continued to use the fridge as if nothing happened and they didn’t even informed anyone to clean the fridge,Cheap NFL Jerseys China,” a staff who preferred to remain unnamed said.Minister of Health,NFL Jerseys China Cheap, Dr. Bheri Ramsaran, when contacted for a comment yesterday said he was not aware of the fridge incident.He promised to launch an investigation while adding that the Administrator at the facility is having some challenges there.Apart from the storage of the dead infant in the hospital’s fridge,Authentic NFL Jerseys Wholesale, workers are condemning the poor working conditions they are being forced to work under. They claimed that there is no functional toilet for the staff,Atlanta Falcons Jersey, a lack of drugs at the pharmacy and the unavailability of patient’s records.In addition to concerns about the working conditions, staffers are alleging that there is a race problem at the facility and those who do not participate in “talk name” with the senior personnel are being victimized.During a visit to the facility on Friday, it was observed that there were no functional toilets for both patients and staff. The toilet that was previously used by employees was nailed down because it is ‘Out of Order’. There are reports that the staff caught a snake in one of them last month.Workers were seen making envelopes for patient’s tablets and this has been going on for a while. The door to the eye clinic broke a while back and three pieces of wood were nailed across it.There were no functional Air-Conditioning units (AC) at the facility and there were many missing louvers on the security hut. Kaieteur News was told that the deterioration started last June.Some persons are blaming the Hospital Administrator for the “dreadful” condition. |
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