EBD residents blast Diamond Diagnostic Centre for unprofessionalism

Thirty-eight-year-old Natasha Gill of North East Grove, East Bank Demerara, was left to sit on a bench at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre on Tuesday evening last after she was rushed to the medical facility crying out for severe pains in the area of her stomach.

The pains, her son stated, could have been related to a heart attack.
Avinash Ramgolam told Guyana Times that he was afraid he would have lost his mother that evening and had no idea how she coped with her pains.
In a recent interview, the young man explained that around 22:00h on the day in question, his mother complained of feeling unwell and was later struck by intense pains and after he realised that the pain was constant, he alerted other relatives.
The young man explained that he arrived at the hospital around 22:20h with his mother, who was barely even able to stand on her feet. The woman’s son further explained that they were made to sit on a bench and wait while doctors at the medical facility were seen walking around and not attending to any patients.
This sprouted concerns and Ramgolam noted that he inquired about what was happening and asked when his mother would be attended to, only to be told that they would have to continue waiting.
After waiting for over an hour, the woman was then taken to a private hospital where she was attended to promptly and diagnosed with gallstone.

He argued that his mother’s situation could have been worse and he cannot imagine what would have happened if her condition had deteriorated that night right at the hospital.
The senior doctor at the hospital refused to comment on the matter.
This publication was told that another male visited the said hospital and waited for about two hours with his head bleeding before he was attended to.
The woman’s family is contending that the doctors should have at least been kind enough to offer some tablets to relieve the pain or even advise them to take her to another hospital if they knew they were pressured with a heavy workload.
This is not the first time that the hospital has been accused of negligence as patients have vented their frustration over the services being offered at the institution in the past.
In fact, some persons even choose to go directly to the Georgetown Public Hospital instead of the Diagnostic Centre in Diamond as critical services are hardly ever available.
In 2016, a mother of four was pronounced dead at the institution after carrying a dead baby inside her womb for five days. The woman, Carol Suniram, of Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, had suffered a miscarriage and was prescribed pills by a doctor to pass out the five-month-old foetus. A few days after, Suniram went to the hospital to do an operation to have the foetus removed but died while in surgery.