Lack of minimal care and sensitivity at public hospitals

Dear Editor,
Who among us can ignore the very touching report by Dr Mark Devonish in the media about the ignominious, downright uncouth, unprofessional and utterly insensitive treatment meted out to him and his family on the occasion of the serious illness and eventual death of his young brother at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
All of which resonated with my own recent report of similar mal-treatment to me and others by the staff of the Skeldon Public Hospital.
I was disappointed, but not surprised, by one of the negative reactions to my recommendation that the public hospitals should be ‘privatised’ and the money thus saved be otherwise used by the Government instead of paying for the ‘ugly, no-professional’ services (what a mis-nomer!) being provided by the constantly demanding staff of these public institutions who are acutely self-centred rather than service-oriented.
I repeat my prayer and call on my Guyanese compatriots to demand corrective action by the powers that be without much more delay, lest our so-called hospitals be fully converted into morgues!

Sincerely,
Nowrang Persaud