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Senator Henry Fraser: Healthcare Slide at the QEH

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) is in the news again. Professor Emeritus Henry Fraser made the announcement this Christmas week that the crisis at the QEH requires Minister of Health (MoH) John Boyce to meet with Minister Chris Sinckler as a matter of urgency. Of course this is the same MoH who boldly stated during…

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Professor Emeritus Henry Fraser
Professor Emeritus Henry Fraser

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) is in the news again. Professor Emeritus Henry Fraser made the announcement this Christmas week that the crisis at the QEH requires Minister of Health (MoH) John Boyce to meet with Minister Chris Sinckler as a matter of urgency. Of course this is the same MoH who boldly stated during the last budget debate that the deep cuts to the Ministry of Health budget would not compromise healthcare delivery.

Senator Irene Sandiford-Garner in response to the criticism offered the view that the QEH remains the best primary healthcare facility in the Caribbean. BU has no way to assess the veracity of Sandiford’s statement however one has to ask if Barbados should not hold the QEH to our high standard. Why should Barbadians retreat to accept benchmarking against healthcare systems in the region which have always looked to Barbados as the standard bearer?

It is instructive to remember that Fraser is an Independent Senator and Senator Sandiford-Garner is government appointed. The question to the BU family et al – who should we believe? Some issues CANNOT be about politics, the good health of a nation is a wealthy of a nation after all.

122 responses to “Senator Henry Fraser: Healthcare Slide at the QEH”

  1. ANON Avatar
    ANON

    The provision of “HEALTHCARE” is a fundamental human right and the powers that be can argue all they want – a healthy nation (i.e OKINAWA) LOMA LINDA (California) experiences greater health & longevity than all the rest of us!

    If politicians, captains of industry and their ilk can “CHOOSE” the best healthcare plans with all kinds of largesse thrown in for good measure – then what about the GUYS* who clean the streets and pick your nasty-arse garbage? What happen – are they not human as well?

    When we have no answers to people’s righteous indignation and their verbal or literary “RANTS” – we can so easily obfuscate, side-step, dodge and deny these realities by using asinine and idiotic “LABELING” such as “COPY & PASTE”, “YARD-FOWLS, and whole host of implausible denials to discredit what is clearly “TRUTH”.

    Again, I reiterate my point: “THE TRUTH IS THE TRUTH REGARDLESS OF HOW YOU DISSECT IT”.

    The Queen Elizabeth Hospital is in a SHAMBLES!

    Just like the WEST INDIES CRICKET team: “TOO MANY “chiefs” AND TOO LITTLE INDIANS!”

    Why is it so painful a process for a mother with a child with a “VP SHUNT” who have suffered since birth for the mother to get access to her child’s medical records? Why has the process been one of belligerence, callousness and excuses?

    QUESTION: Do I have the “LEGAL” right to my medical records? Also, why would a hospital deny anyone that right? Is something “DODGY” in those records that would vilify or implicate specific doctors and the hospital in NEGLIGENCE?

    @ BUSHMAN – here’ some COPY & PASTE for ya’!

    BAJANS* are like cassava sticks – some of us are so “CROOKED” that it will take a “MIRACLE” to straighten us out and to remove the notches that we seem so proud of!

    To get my people to “EDUCATE” themselves in the arena of HEALTHCARE REFORM” is like pulling wisdom teeth without Novocaine!

    The average Bajan believes that if we don’t have Macaroni Pie, Baked Chicken/Pork/Lamb Chops, “White” parboiled Rice & Peas, Creamed Potato Salad, Coleslaw and a paltry toss salad – (a complex DENATURED DIET) with a rabidly, unintelligent combination of food groups that only results in the process of ” Leukocytosis” then we are not happy. No wonder most suffer with digestive issues and end up in the hospital but their immune systems can’t fight the perpetual onslaught!

    To tell the average BAJAN that 50+% of your food should be RAW (organically produced free from fungicides, larvacides & pesticides) results in raised eyebrows for we believe that DINNER or LUNCH or even a SNACK is to go and eat the POISON that HALOUTTE has his slaves pushing at CHEFETTE!

    Having foreparents who were slaves – our psyche and way of thinking is still pretty much entrenched with this primordial idea of “ENTRAILS” (pig-guts, sheep guts, livers, gisherts , feet, chicken bottoms etc) as food and with no “TRUE EDUCATION” being taught in our churches, school or institutions of so-called enlightenment – many are left in this vortex which believes that anything that can be chewed and “TASTE” good is FOOD!

    What a terminal LIE!

    Is it any wonder QEH is flooded with AMPUTEES day after day waiting to see a doctor (who for all intents happen to be frankly “CLUELESS” as to how to really treat DISEASE in their myriad forms) while the “PATIENT” who has no p[atience] at all to do the right thing pathetically waits on his “god” (the doctor) to give him a MAGIC PILL that while sucking on it like a lollip[op] will cure him of his terminal disease! What buffoonery!

    Yet some of us want to claim that “MAN” is created in the IMAGE of GOD!

    What a colossal CROQ!

    Basic wisdom dictates that we relook at our HEALTHCARE provisions! Many things need to revamped! DOCTORS (not physicians) need to go back and relearn the fundamentals of BIOLOGY & PHYSIOLOGY with the preponderance of weight being placed on NUTRITION & DIET! Throw out the “FREAKING” medical text books and kick BIG PHARMA into shape! Only then, will modern clinical practice have the EFFICACY Hippocrates and others envisioned!

    We can argue modern equipment, modern buildings, squeaky clean corridors, quilted toilet paper to wipe our arses and all the other BS – until the “FUNDAMENTALS change – all we will have is the same ‘ole, same ‘ole and people will continue hustling to Westbury Cemetery, Christ Church Parish church and everywhere else!

    Surely, it is time for us to “WAKE UP” as a nation of so-called intelligent people!

    But then, that may just be a facade!

  2. Roverp Avatar
    Roverp

    Seriously I can not believe that we are as a country moving away from caring for each other into this SELFISH SELF-CENTERED THINKING. Health care should be provided from the general taxes we pay and we should never start going to user fees. Health Insurance in Barbados is another form of IMPORTS that we can do without.

  3. ANON Avatar
    ANON

    If you “FOOLS” think this is ONLY endemic within BARBADOS think again! This problem is pervasive across the board – note the reasons: POOR STAFFING & LACK OF ADEQUATE OVERSITE!

    Could this be the problem in Barbados?

    In lesser developed nations in AFRICA & Asia – how is it that the problems are completely the opposite where because due to a lack of “RESOURCES” hospitals and indigenous people suffer! Yet, doctors & staff are proficient & efficient in the delivery of life-saving treatments! And they are paid a “PITTANCE” of what our ego-maniacal riffraff poach from the system and from the poor!

    If this stuff doesn’t PISS you off – then pinch yourself hard!

  4. Green Monkey Avatar
    Green Monkey

    The average Bajan believes that if we don’t have Macaroni Pie, Baked Chicken/Pork/Lamb Chops, “White” parboiled Rice & Peas, Creamed Potato Salad, Coleslaw and a paltry toss salad – (a complex DENATURED DIET)

    And they best not be using a microwave oven to cook the Rice & Peas.

    The Dangers of Microwave Radiation Cannot be Ignored

    An experiment conducted at home for a high school science fair five years ago has verified the dangers of microwave ovens not only to humans, but even to plants and other organic matter. The experiment showed that microwaved water given to a plant causes the plant to wither and die within days; however, another identical plant given water that was boiled on a conventional stove grew normally during the same time period.

    Many studies conducted throughout the world have repeatedly highlighted the deleterious effects of microwave ovens on human health. In fact microwave ovens are so dangerous that they were banned in Russia from 1976 to 1987. Twenty years of thorough research by Russian scientists convinced them that the dangers of the devices outweighed the benefits in cooking time. This experiment further verifies their findings.

    In the home experiment, filtered water was divided into two parts. One part would be microwaved and allowed to cool before being given to the plant, while the second part would be heated on a conventional stove top and given to an identical plant. Results were observed over a nine day period. By the third day it was already clear that the plant given the microwaved water was not faring as well as its counterpart.

    By the ninth day the microwaved plant was virtually nonexistent in its pot, having literally shrunk in size to just a few inches above the soil. The second plant was growing beautifully.

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-dangers-of-microwave-radiation-cannot-be-ignored/24342

  5. David Avatar
    David

    MoH John Boyce’s response in the Nation today is true to form. He rubbishes Fraser’s claim about shortage of supplies but admits his ministry is working with suppliers to remedy the situation. In the same Ricky Jordan article BAMP paints a different picture from Boyce’s. Ring o Ring.

  6. Green Monkey Avatar
    Green Monkey

    I wonder if the QEH has been wasting money on useless vaccines
    See:

    Yet another vaccine researcher caught faking research; vaccine industry riddled with scientific fraud

    Yet another vaccine researcher has been caught faking research on a bogus AIDS vaccine, adding to the pattern of scientific fraud and criminality that characterizes the modern-day vaccine industry. Dr. Dong-Pyou Han from Iowa State University has resigned this week after admitting he spiked rabbit blood samples with healthy human blood to falsely show the presence of antibodies that would “prove” his AIDS vaccine worked.

    The National Institutes of Health (NIH) was so convinced by the fraud that they gave Han $19 million in research funding. The NIH later found the fraud after attempting to replicate Han’s work and figuring out something was terribly wrong with the research.

    snip

    Han’s $19 million vaccine research fraud eerily resembles the vaccine industry fraud exposed by former Merck virologists Stephen Krahling and Joan Wlochowski. In a little-known False Claims Act filing, these two scientists accused Merck of spiking mumps vaccine blood tests with animal antibodies in order to make the vaccines appear to be effective.

    This fraud is what allowed Merck to falsely claim its mumps vaccine is 95% effective, say the scientist whistleblowers. In reality, the fraudulent Merck mumps vaccine actually contributed to the spread of mumps across America, they explain.

  7. de.hood Avatar
    de.hood

    Wuhloss, so if we can’t trust our medical profession now then who is there left to trust? We never could trust the politicians (lol) then it was the priests and preachers we could not trust and not it is the medical profession. Who next will be added to the list? Looka it seems that I bess’ had go and plant whatever I need to eat and leff de res’ tuh de Good Lord, hear!

  8. ANON Avatar
    ANON

    Glaxo says it will stop paying doctors to promote drugs

    ABOUT TIME AND ALL! Time for these legalized drug PUSHERS & PEDDLERS to get back to practicing proper medicine!

    Read More:

    http://www.cnbc.com/id/101277224

  9. ANON Avatar
    ANON

    LOL!

    All that’s left is to “NUKE” what remain on the plate!

  10. David Avatar
    David

    The same article advised that the nurse association corroborates Fraser’s pronouncement yet Minister John Boyce showing agro at Boyce. Why must these guys quarrel with everybody?

  11. ANON Avatar
    ANON

    GSK to stop paying doctors to make speeches

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25415485

  12. LIKE IT OR LUMP IT Avatar
    LIKE IT OR LUMP IT

    @David, This sans-serif font against the background theme colour you have selected is a bit hard on the eyes.

  13. LIKE IT OR LUMP IT Avatar
    LIKE IT OR LUMP IT

    The words seem hidden in the background. They are not as prominent as they ought to be.

  14. JUST ASKING Avatar
    JUST ASKING

    One wonders why David makes these changes

  15. are-we-there-yet? Avatar
    are-we-there-yet?

    david; Actually, I think the new format is a great improvement and should if possible be retained into the New year, minus the Christmas illustrations of course!

  16. PLANTATION DEEDS FROM 1926 TO 2013 , MASSIVE FRAUD ,LAND TAX BILLS AND NO DEEDS OF BARBADOS, BLPand DLP=Massive Fruad Avatar
    PLANTATION DEEDS FROM 1926 TO 2013 , MASSIVE FRAUD ,LAND TAX BILLS AND NO DEEDS OF BARBADOS, BLPand DLP=Massive Fruad

    Dr.Fraser is a crook , liar ,and scumbag,, He need to be removed , We will keep the focus on him and them ,, March on

  17. Brief Avatar
    Brief

    A healthy and prosperous 2014 to each of you.

    @ David

    The grey is too dark a lighter grey would suffice. Compare the white background below ‘DO NOT BE SHY, SHARE YOUR VIEW!’ and see how dark your grey background makes even the white look a shade of grey.
    The shade grey with instruction ‘Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:’ is much softer and projects the fonts better.

    However, were there complaints about the white background or are you seeking the viewers opinions?

    With print it is not a matter of liking or disliking change – it is what is easier on the eyes.

    Kindly heed another opinion.

    God bless.

  18. Brief Avatar
    Brief

    In Barbados corporate and government entities – mendicant mentality is the fundamental requirement for leadership and promotion.

    Instead of promoting qualified, skilled personnel, once you cry and cry about problems or find yourself working long hours for nothing, and then inform bosses of your challenges you can get a loan or grant.

    This is one reason I say that NISE can close down. We have to stop leading our people to continually rely on Government and teach them rewards for services rendered. Teach incentive and bonus.

    We have a health care main hospital that today cannot see full modernization and regular supplies.
    Who keeps inventory? Does the underpaid overworked disgruntled worker? If there is a shortage do you really think that that type of worker can see supplies are low or missing?

    When the doctors don’t show, who are responsible for looking at patients and saying ‘the Doctor is in as yet’ is it the same employee that you want to keep stock of your supplies?

    We have to command quality service, regular attendance, punctuality not only from the resident staff but also from the Doctors. Doctors should also be courteous when they are going to be late – each time the nurses, orderlies or domestic cleaners are the ones saying ‘the Doctor ain’ come yet.’

    If you want your employees to be loyal to you then be loyal to them.

  19. Brief Avatar
    Brief

    NUMBER TWO

    Successive Ministers of Health ought to be held accountable with the PS and management of the QEH for the shambles that it is in now.

    Without a Commission of Inquiry an assessment should be done by the Ministry of Health into its own operation and the Opposition and Trade Union(s) should be a part of the investigation.

    Where the Minister failed to properly investigate or act timely then he should be taken before the DPP for further investigation.

    Until our Members of Parliament know that they can be prosecuted nothing will change at the QEH nor any other Ministry on this island.

    But who will put a stop to the haemorrhaging if the surgeons (financial professionals) are not notified of the case and see it in the newspapers. Mind you, the surgeons work at the same hospital, Ministry of Finance and in the PM’s office.

  20. David Avatar
    David

    Thanks Brief will have a look.

  21. Boy Blue Avatar
    Boy Blue

    A fellow on the block said that some of the shortages at the QEH may include toilet paper,as the Government has began to stockpile toilet paper,so that when the IMF finally steps in,the Central Bank will use that paper to print Barbados dollar bills on.

  22. ac Avatar
    ac

    From a hail of gun fire unarmed black men are now legally killed.when one check the roots and the source of this madness mainly from within the deepsouth a connection similar to those with a racist past is obvious.

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