How long will our people beg on National Television for medical help?

Dear Editor,

I recently watched the debate in Parliament with Hon. Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence debating about members of the PPP/C’s exorbitant medical bills funded by taxpayers’ money. I learnt recently that our President Granger is not in Guyana but is in Cuba on medical checkups and prior to that in Trinidad. I have nothing against the President nor his Cabinet Ministers but I am a bit concerned as to why none of our Ministers want to use the GPHC or Balwant Singh Hospital, or the Woodlands Hospital.

Most of our Ministers are running to top class hospitals abroad at the expense of taxpayers’ hard- earned dollars. Here is an interesting scenario. A lady lost her baby recently at the GPHC while the doctor was on his phone chatting. I saw it on the news but that story is buried already from the media. Many of our poor citizens are dying at the hands of ill-trained doctors.

The past and present administrations created hospitals they will never enter nor their families but we must go there. Not long ago one of our female Pastors lost her husband at the GPHC from a heart blockage that the man could have survived if the Ministry of Public Health could have sent him abroad the same way our Prime Minister went to treat his heart.

Just a few months ago we saw another young athlete from Rose Hall die at the GPHC. If this government was concerned or the Ministry of Public Health they would have taken that athlete abroad for treatment. There is no real concern nor