| Member of Parliament Vanessa Kissoon has expressed dismay at several troubling issues that persist at the Linden Hospital Complex.According to Kissoon,Cheap Shoes Wholesale Free Shipping, the laundry room is not functioning. ‘It bruk down,China NFL Jerseys,’ and the Hospital’s linens are being sent to Georgetown to be washed.Kissoon is questioning the reason for this, especially as there are laundromats in Linden, equipped to do these jobs.She said that when the linens are not returned in a timely manner, the hospital is sometimes left without sheets, and patients either have to lie on bare mattresses, if they forgot to walk with their own, or on the other hand, nurses sometimes substitute screens for bed sheets.Another cause for concern, Kissoon said, is insufficient beds, while indicating that quite recently some female patients had to be ‘housed’ in the male wards, because there was inadequate accommodation for them in the female wards. The patients reportedly spent as much as two days in the male wards.Equally troubling is the fact that even though there are two ultra sound machines, patients still have to travel to Georgetown to do ultra sounds, as there are no trained personnel to operate the equipment.Kissoon said that this situation is most untenable,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys, with the high level of unemployment in linden; and even for those persons that are employed the cost of travelling to the city to do these tests, is somewhat prohibitive.The quality of water at the hospital is also highly questionable,Cheap Jerseys From China, ‘even for brushing one’s teeth’, Kissoon vented.And as if that was not enough, the facility was without the vital commodity for the past two days.But the MP said that what peeves her most is the present ‘exploitation’ of the hospital maids, who are taken off the wards and sent to clean some doctors’ quarters with no additional pay.According to Kissoon,Cheap Jerseys Store, the doctors should be hiring their private domestic help, or pay the hospital maids out of their own pockets.At present there are only three nurses to 28 patients at the hospital, yet the administration is saying that of the twenty three nurses that graduated last May there is only place for twelve of them at the institution.The others have to be sent to other hospitals,Cheap Jerseys, even though they are still only receiving a stipend and not a salary.Relocation necessitates having to pay a rent in most cases, which the stipend can barely cover, Kissoon said. |
