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When we employ people in such sensitive areas where life and death is dependent on timeliness of service, we are doing ourselves a great disservice by placing people who CULTURALLY do NOT have any of that type of sensitivity.
It is like asking that a person used to or tolerant of having flies in and out of eyes and around mouths to raise their sense of hygiene. The same goes for suffering and hunger. They know or have seen worse in their own countries. Yours therefore, is insignificant.
People from different cultures treat such things quite differently. We live in a globalized world. It is time we get a world view in Saint Lucia.
Mercifully, there was an paying alternative. Better still, you were able to tap into it.
Our people really make me get angry sometimes.
I remember once going to Victoria Hospital A&E Dept to get a relative to have her hand looked at as it might have been broken. After five hours with some young people running around making noise , with the place packed and hot and everyone sweating finally my family member had to go up the road for an x-ray. Only one doctor and two harassed nurses and the place was a mess.
Around two years later I went back for my son who had a bad cold and I could not believe what I saw! The A&E Dept had only one patient waiting, clean, the nurse on duty was calmly waiting to attend to the next patient who came in. When we went in the place was air conditioned and everything ready for patients. I could not believe it.
So I asked what happened for this transformation?
Apparently the new Minister of Health was Sarah Flood and she had done miracles with the place. Air conditioning, a portable x ray machine, hot water, proper medications available , TW0 doctors at all times, the patients were divided into urgent and regular cases and treated accordingly. It was even better than what I saw in the US.
So it seems now the place has gone back to being a mess after the great work she did !
So here you had a Minister who made things work and your government fired her and you all never said anything.
We really have no sense in this country sometimes.
We want good politicians and when they come around we are too blind to see.
The whole island is in a mess. Get out if you can! Most doctors have diplomas from African countries or India.
makes for sad reading... what a very very very sad situation.
Our people have no standards.
This kind of service represents the lack of Christian order that is missing from our daily lives.
We are no longer a country that adhers to the levels of decency that we had decades ago.
From the vulgarity at Carnival to the filth on our streets to the weed smoking murderers in the ghetto we have moved to a level of indescipline indicative of a primitive culture.
We no longer have quality leaders in any sphere of life. Our scampish leaders have no morals and only say what is right if it can gain political points. The peoples' tax money is spent on useless ministers and unproductive civil servants and lavish perks and joyrides for these 'servants of the people'.
We have unkempt minds and no moral direction as shown on Lucian blogs on places like Facebook. Yet we continue to fool ourselves about our civility and culture.
We have become a pathetic people.
Just recently there is the sargasso seaweed problem on the east coast. Any competent or structured or desciplined logical people or government would have already committed themselves to collecting and disposing of or utilizing the seaweed for fertilizer.
Instead long after it is affecting tourism the government and MP are silent like moo moos. The people on the beach come on TV to complain but make no effort to be proactive like a bunch of mendicants. No wonder the political parties only have to give them bribes rum and chicken at election time.
The SLP and their useless leadership will only act if they can give a 'work' to a party hack to move the seaweed.
Pathetic jokers all!
...the minister of health owes the public a response to the complainant...period!
Minister of Health? MY ASS. Alvina Reynolds can't tell left from right in health care.
Say your prayers little one
Don't forget my son
To include everyone
I tuck you in, warm within
Keep you free from sin
'Til the sandman he comes
Sleep with one eye open
Gripping your pillow tight
Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
We're off to never-never land
Something's wrong, shut the light
Heavy thoughts tonight
And they aren't of Snow White
Dreams of war, dreams of liars
Dreams of dragon's fire
And of things that will bite, yeah
Sleep with one eye open
Gripping your pillow tight
This is unacceptable. Nurses and doctors need to be a lot more sensitive to their clientelle.While I am appauled by such subbbbb standard treatment,I am thankful that u could of afforded to do otherwise for your sick niece. What about those that can't afforrd to,those that travel from far and just can't afford to pay. There is certainly a need for changes and improvements. UNACCEPTABLE !SUBBBBB STANDARD is putting it mild.
When the new hospital comes into operation the modus operandi will b the same new equipment n surroundings don't change bad attitudes and lack of caring. There is a need to get to the bottom of such issues/challenges and address them with alacrity.Lives are important and worthy of cherishing no matter your status !
Years ago I was admitted into the Victoria Hospital's maternity ward because my daughter was breach and overdue. I was shown into the main ward and directed to a bed and asked to get unpacked and undressed. As I was organising my things, a much older looking lady lying covered in the bed opposite me suddenly stuck her hands out and grabbed the iron bedhead behind her. She arched her body upwards and emitted a piercing sound somewhere between a howl and a grunt. Startled, I looked around for a reaction: the other women carried on gossiping amongst themselves without a glance in the lady's direction and no staff were in sight. I assumed this must have been going on for a while so I continued my unpacking.
After a few minutes more of these outbursts, the lady let out a wail and, twisting her body upwards and outwards, shot herself out of her bed and landed half-crouched at its side but still leaning over it and grasping the sheets in her bony hands.
While I looked on in horror as a liquid poured out from under her nightgown, I was then transfixed by the sight of a bloody bundle suddenly appearing and hanging between her legs. I looked up for help and saw a big nurse unhurriedly wandering down the ward with an enormous pair of black-handled scissors swinging alongside her.
She casually picked up the lady's robe, tucked the bloody bundle under her arm and, with a swift snip, cut the cord. She then returned, still without pace, to the far end of the ward leaving the aged mother shivering and shaking still in her bent position at the side of her bed. Only about five minutes later did another nurse appear with a wheelchair to wheel her away.
The spreading pool of liquid remained until late evening with no one paying it the least attention: all the while leaking through the wide gaps in the heavy blackened floorboards to who knows what lay below.
The bathrooms were covered in blood splats and disgusting. Another woman casually told me that a few days before, a young girl gave birth in the toilet bowl when she had gone for a pee.
I soon discovered that none of these stories were considered remarkable. But those images have never left me. (Luckily, I was moved to a newly available private room, but my own birth trials and tribulations - yes, I had them - are another story.)
What most of us do not understand is that the sensitivity that we are looking for in these medical workers is highly culturally determined and ingrained.
We would be foolish to expect to put the medical equivalent of the German Gestapo in a hospital to be in charge of the welfare of black patients.
These people, because of their own cultural tolerance, experience, and acceptance of appalling health conditions as the norm back home, they cannot be expected to operate and rise to our standards. That is not how they were trained. Their appalling standards will now become our standards, if their unacceptable behaviours remain unchecked. There are no two ways about this.
This country is spiraling downwards into a social abyss. This place is a real man-made SLP hell.
We seriously need a Minister of Health who really knows, and is able to deliver the required and acceptable difference. Does she even appear to have the necessary competence?
Africans in every and any capacity serve for bribes. That is the "African culture." and when you import African doctors, you import the biggest dose of corruption possible on earth. Take it or leave it, if you want service, you MUST bribe. So be warned for the next time you got the ER.
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