Region Five councillor in hospital controversy quits

Two days after she found herself at the centre of allegations of using her office to get preferential treatment at the Fort Wellington Hospital, APNU+AFC Region Five Councillor, Carol Joseph has resigned. Her resignation was confirmed by the Region’s Chairman Vickchand Ramphal yesterday. Ramphal informed that the resignation was handed in yesterday and announced at a meeting of the Council but that Joseph was absent. He did not give details as to the reasons for Joseph’s resignation. Stabroek News contacted Joseph who declared that she had nothing to say and that she did not want any newspaper contacting her. However, sources close to her said that she was advised by “higher persons in government to resign”. The resignation came two days after the Region 5 Councillor found herself at the centre of a complaint by a nurse at the Fort Wellington Hospital and one day after the abrupt transfer of the same nurse to another facility in the region.