Persons have expressed their concerns over the shortage of ambulances and the attitude of the attendants at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).For the past few months, relatives of sick persons have complained that they have been forced to wait for several hours to get an ambulance.They have also spoken about the lack of attendants at the facility and the attitude of these persons when doing their job.“First of all, when you go at the hospital it is difficult for you to get an ambulance; you have to end up taking a taxi. These attendants don’t realize that they are being paid to assist the sick and elderly.“I was visiting the hospital for two weeks straight because my mother was admitted there. While there, I observed the attitude of the attendants. Some of them were cursing in front of the patients, while some bluntly refused to assist,” Alisa Khan claimed.Kaieteur News was told that on many occasions, when patients have to be transferred to other hospitals, “you can’t get an ambulance.”On March, 20, last, Andy Hunte, a two-month-old baby died at GPHC, minutes after he was struck in the head with a belt during a drunken brawl between his parents at a rum shop.The ‘belt buckle’ knocked the baby unconscious. Doctors at GPHC had advised that little Hunte was required to do a CT-Scan, urgently, at a private institute.Sources claimed that the doctor on call that day at the private hospital was notified about the patient’s critical state and was preparing to do the CT-Scan on the baby at 11:00hrs the same day but because there was no ambulance present at GPHC to transport the baby, the scan was never done. The baby eventually succumbed later that day,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, while waiting on an ambulance.Some time last month, there was a body lying at GPHC’s Accident and Emergency Unit (A&E) waiting to be taken to the mortuary, but because of the lack of attendants, the body was not moved until 20:00hrs, after being there since 15:00hrs that day.
