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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.

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

  1. BAFBFP Avatar
    BAFBFP

    “ERECT LARGE EDIFICES” … that is exactly what the wife told me this morning …

  2. David Avatar
    David

    BU recalls that president of BAMP Carlos Chase admitted that the MoH and government did not consult them about the budget cuts before the announcement in the last budget. The MoH denied the accusation. What the hell is going on?

  3. BAFBFP Avatar
    BAFBFP

    Sarge
    Are you aware that the tax payers now pay thousands of dollars a month to Bizzy Williams to rent the facilities that now house the Ministry of Culture ..?

  4. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    @BT
    The structural soundness of the QEH is sound? I am not talking about a shortage of supplies that is well known.

  5. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    pardon my redundancy lol

  6. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    @David
    The same thing since the elections of 2008–LIES!

  7. ANON Avatar
    ANON

    WORLD’s GREATEST MEDICAL FAILURES

    The failure of the medical paradigm

    The failure of cancer treatments

    The standard treatments for cancer are surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. Do any of these treatments do one single thing to address the actual causes of cancer? And the answer, of course, is no, they do not. All they do is “attempt” to remove the manifestation of the cancer that results from these causes. To believe they address the underlying causes of your cancer, you would have to believe that you got cancer in the first place because your body was suffering from a deficiency of radiation or chemotherapy. No one believes that, not even your doctor. Is it any wonder then that these treatments have had such a poor track record? And on top of everything else, we now know that radiation and chemotherapy are known carcinogens. They significantly compound the problem!

    The failure of diabetes treatments

    Standard medical treatment offers several flawed approaches:

    Drugs like metformin seek to inhibit the absorption of high glycemic carbohydrates in the intestinal tract and enhance insulin sensitivity in the body, thereby reducing the need for extra insulin.

    The major problem with metformin is its effect on the gastrointestinal system, ranging from a mild loss of appetite to nausea, vomiting, abdominal discomfort, cramps, flatulence and diarrhea. Many patients find these symptoms impossible to cope with and discontinue the tablets within days.

    Lactic acidosis is a rare but dangerous side effect of metformin. This is a serious condition where the cells of the body do not get enough oxygen to survive. It is caused by a build up of lactic acid in the blood. Most of the cases described have been in people whose kidneys were not working well — an inevitable problem with diabetes.

    Drugs like glyburide work by stimulating the pancreas to release more insulin. Glyburide is so effective that you need to carry glucose pills with you in case you produce so much insulin that your blood sugar drops too low and you fall into a diabetic coma. Although this rarely happens, it is indicative of the larger problems with glyburide:

    It raises insulin levels so high that your body faces all of the problems of high insulin levels discussed above. It doesn’t repair beta cells; it just forces them to work harder — thus speeding up the day when they break down and become dysfunctional.

    Extra insulin in the form of pills or injections cover you when the beta cells in your pancreas have burned out and can no longer produce sufficient insulin by themselves or even when stimulated by drugs such as glyburide — until, that is, your body’s insulin resistance is so high that no amount of insulin is adequate for the task at hand. At that point, your body goes into rapid decay.

    And when all is said and done, it should be noted that a huge study published earlier this year found that aggressively using these drugs to lower blood sugar levels actually resulted in an increased risk of death. The more they were used, the greater the risk.

    The failure of heart disease treatments

    Heart disease is the number one killer in the developed world, In most cases, it begins with atherosclerosis, which is the accumulation of plaque that hardens and narrows arteries. The progression is simple. You have clogged arteries. This eventually causes your blood pressure to rise so your doctor prescribes blood pressure medication to eliminate the symptom of high blood pressure — not the problem, clogged and hardened arteries. To reduce blood pressure, doctors have essentially four classes of medication in their arsenal.

    Diuretics, which reduce pressure by making you pee out water from your body. Reduce the volume of fluid in your blood, and you reduce the pressure. Unfortunately, side effects can include dizziness, weakness, an increased risk of strokes, and impotence. (Not to worry, there are medications to alleviate the side effects.)

    Calcium channel blockers, which work to relax and widen the arteries — thus reducing blood pressure. Then again, a major side effect of channel blockers is a 60% increased risk of heart attack. (1, 2)

    Beta blockers, which work by weakening the heart so it won’t pump as strongly, thereby reducing blood pressure. One of the major problems with beta blockers, though, is the increased risk of congestive heart failure.

    And more recently, its use has been associated with an increased risk of diabetes. Now catch this. Despite the increased risk of congestive heart failure, an article in the New England Journal of Medicine August 20, 1998, recommended putting “every single” heart attack survivor on beta blockers.

    ACE inhibitors (the new drugs of choice), which like the calcium channel blockers, also work to relax and widen the arteries. Unfortunately, ACE inhibitors can produce severe allergic reactions, can be deadly to fetuses and children who are breastfeeding, and can cause severe kidney damage.

    But remember, these drugs only treat the symptom, not the cause — clogged arteries. So eventually, as your arteries continue to clog to the point where even the medication no longer helps, you start getting the inevitable chest pains and shortness of breath. At that point, your doctor is then forced to chase the next set of symptoms and perform a coronary bypass or angioplasty to relieve the symptoms.

    And like the drugs before it, surgery merely addresses the symptoms, not the problem. Think about this for a moment: If all your doctor did was bypass or clear the arteries supplying blood to your heart, doesn’t that mean that all of the other arteries in your body are still clogged — including the arteries that supply blood to your brain? The answer, of course, is yes.

    And, in fact, your odds of having a stroke after heart surgery are dramatically increased.

    Not to worry. Your doctor has another drug to deal with this problem: Coumadin® (medicinal rat poison), which inhibits clotting and thins your blood so that it flows more easily through the narrowed arteries. But Coumadin has its own set of problems, and, of course, you are still on all of the previous blood-pressure drugs and symptom relieving drugs that your doctor previously prescribed.

    The bottom line is that the average number of prescriptions per senior citizen has grown from 19.6 in 1992 to 28.5 in 2000, an increase of 45 percent. The average number of prescriptions per person 65 and older is projected to grow to 38.5 by 2010, an increase of 35 percent over 2000. From 1992 to 2010, then, the average number of prescriptions per senior citizen will grow by 96 percent. Stunningly, only the first 1 or 2 drugs actually deal with the symptoms presented by the original medical problem. The other 17-36 drugs are all required to deal with the negative side effects of the original 2, plus the interactions of all the other drugs being taken. And the really sad fact is that in over 95% of all cases, the original problem could have been resolved by merely changing diet and lifestyle — with no side effects.

    Somehow, along the way, we have created a major industry centered around disease and manipulating the symptoms of those diseases, and everyone wants a piece of the action — from insurance companies to doctors, administrators to state legislatures, lobbyists to hospitals, drug companies to researchers, medical device companies to universities, and even all the non-profits that collect millions and millions of dollars to support this massive system of dysfunction. Make no mistake, this is not a wellness industry, but as Paul Pilzer states in The Wellness Revolution, it is a “Disease Industry” — designed not to eliminate disease, but to perpetuate the management of symptoms. And the really sad fact is that in over 95% of all cases, the original problem could have been resolved naturally — with no side effects.

    Do you understand the implications of that statement?

    Disease can be averted, treated, and in many, many cases even reversed — naturally, with no side effects…and at little cost!

    © 1999-2013 The Baseline of Health Foundation

  8. David Avatar
    David

    @ANON

    Doc GP is going to be very upset with you.

  9. ANON Avatar
    ANON

    THE 10 THINGS DOCTORS MUST DO TO TRULY EARN THE RESPECT THEY CRAVE!

    Look, modern medicine and the doctors who practice it have much to be proud of. As we discussed earlier (and last issue), there are many areas in which they have made great progress — and areas in genetic and stem cell therapy and prosthetics that are likely to be transforming over the next 10-20 years.

    But that said, there is much that modern medicine has to apologize for. And if doctors ever truly want to be the all around healers they claim to be, they will have to change some fundamental paradigms.

    In the last newsletter, I listed the 10 greatest advances in medical history, according to doctors surveyed in the British Medical Journal. Let me wrap up this two part series by giving you my list of the 10 things doctors must do if they truly want to earn the respect they crave. Medical doctors must:

    Start thinking of the human body as an integrated whole, not a machine with separate parts that can be treated independently.
    Start treating underlying causes, rather than merely managing symptoms.
    Actually learn the real role that diet and lifestyle play in optimizing health. A total of 6-8 hours of study in medical school does not make one an expert.

    Accept the fact that the proper use of the right supplements can improve health.
    Accept the fact that exposure to over 100,000 untested toxins released into the environment is going to have an impact on health — and that it is indeed possible to detoxify many of those toxins even after they have entered the body.

    Stop accepting perks (essentially bribes) from the pharmaceutical companies, which then influence subsequent treatment decisions.
    Stop accepting simultaneous positions with drug companies and on FDA advisory boards. Quite simply, it is unethical to pass regulatory decisions on drugs in which you have a financial interest.

    Evaluate alternative therapy treatments on a level playing field. Stop insisting that alternative health treatments must undergo rigorous peer reviewed study before they can be used, and yet allow 85% of all medical treatments to be used untested.

    Stop being so arrogant as to think that if treatments don’t come from within the medical fraternity, they have no value.

    And stop being so arrogant as to think that alternative health treatments and supplements can be evaluated without the active participation of alternative healers. Going to medical school grants no expertise in alternative health — none! (I once had a medical doctor announce to me with great pride that he had become an expert in alternative health the previous weekend under instructions from the head of his hospital. Considering that it’s taken me over 40 years to develop a passing understanding of the field, with expertise in just one or two small areas, his achieving mastery of the entire field in just two days was truly impressive.)

    When all is said and done, I have been fortunate to travel the world, to meet and spend time with dedicated men and women within the medical community whose work in the field of healing has distinguished them as miracle doctors. Not once or twice, but every day, over and over, they perform miracles.

    But when it comes to the major diseases of our time, they can do better. And when you consider the alternative, we can only hope they do.

    © 1999-2013 The Baseline of Health Foundation

  10. SITH Avatar
    SITH

    It all comes down to two things, money and priority. . If you don’t have any money you cant spend any, and if you do have it and spend it on things other than healthcare, then healthcare be it hospitals or services does not rank as necessary as other things money is being spent on. .

    Sell the airport and use the money for the health of the nation.

  11. BAFBFP Avatar
    BAFBFP

    I t’ought you did dead Pearl …

  12. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Sorry Enuff
    Bushie thought that Pearl was referring to the overall state of affairs.
    But even WRT the structural soundness…who do you think designed and built the structure? Politicians?
    Why would you trust Caswell’s anonymous engineering critics over the KNOWN engineers and builders who designed, built and presumably oversee the place?
    …don’t you think Caswell’s sources could be some cowards looking for a big contract …and who is aware of Caswell’s willingness to talk?
    Steupssss
    …you like you are of fairly recent vintage yuh…. 🙂

  13. ANON Avatar
    ANON

    @DAVID

    He’ll get over it! My views are not that radical or controversial – politicians and clinicians on 2 continents knows my position including BARBADOS.

    So hard cheese guys!

    With enough HUMAN BEINGS AWAKE – something will have to change!

  14. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    man David…BAN THIS MAN YUH!
    …before he give GP a heart attack…..LOLOL 🙂

  15. David Avatar
    David

    @BT

    Suspect the West Indies team did a good job of racing his heart early this morning.

  16. ANON Avatar
    ANON

    @ BUSHMAN

    My pot don’t boil-up at GP or at any politician, priest or POPE!

    The truth is the “TRUTH” no matter how you dissect it!

  17. David Avatar
    David

    Can we get 3 recommendations to turn the QEH around in the short term

    Can we get 3 recommendations to turn the QEH around in the medium to long term?

  18. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ ANON
    Good points, HOWEVER you have made a few small errors when you highlight the “failures” of modern medicine….

    1 – you assume that the overall intent is to improve overall health.

    2 – you cannot identify “success or failure” in the absence of agreement on the fundamental objective.

    Therefore modern medicine has been EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL -for the Drug Companies and for 90% of all doctors who play the game -all multi billionaires ( Companies) and millionaires (most doctors)

    No one EVER cared about the basic sheeple anyway, so the fact that current results are marginally better than those achieved by “bush doctors” is neither here nor there…
    If we were really serious about improving OVERALL health, then we would either actively educate the public, or ban the public sale of such poisons as SWEET DRINKS, WHEAT products, sugar, fast foods, GM products, and processed food generally….and we would ACTIVELY encourage exercise and other de-stressing activities…..

    …but then what the hell would most doctors do? Chase ambulances?

  19. ANON Avatar
    ANON

    @ BUSHMAN

    “…but then what the hell would most doctors do? Chase ambulances?”

    ROTFLMBO

    Priceless Bushie!

  20. ANON Avatar
    ANON

    @ BUSHMAN et al

  21. Observing Avatar
    Observing

    @ “What the hell is going on?”

    More of the same!

  22. David Avatar
    David

    Bear in mind the establishment of a QEH Board was intended to resolve many of the problems which continue to today.

  23. Askquith Avatar
    Askquith

    @ David

    “”Can we get 3 recommendations to turn the QEH around in the medium to long term?”

    Medium Term: Put the doctors in charge not the politicians. Setup a real board of medical experts to oversee the entire health care system. I never could understand why politicians think they know more about health care than the people who went to school to learn about it.

    Medium Term: Setup a reoccurring independent audit system that reports back to the board to include findings at QEH and clinics along with customer feedback surveys to identify where the real issues are. Then have those in charge initiate a results oriented action plans.

    Long Term: Need a national payroll deduction entitled “QEH/Real Health” that actually goes to the healthcare system. Yes “more taxes” but designated to health care only.

    I will throw in a 4th for good old times sake: Need an immediate mandate. You can interpret that however you want.

  24. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @David at BU ” The question to the BU family et al – who should we believe?”

    We should believe Dr. Fraser

  25. David Avatar
    David

    In today’s Nation the Doctors have sides with Fraser.

  26. JUST ASKING Avatar
    JUST ASKING

    The DLP is doing a good job of destroying everything that we gained over the years.
    The people have been prayed for by overseas people who were brought in to pray for Barbados and the people seemed to be a in some sort of stupor just sitting back and taking crap from this Government.

    I do not see why Barbados should have to suffer at the hands of this incompetent Government. And just because people support a party , they want to justify everything that the party does. It is pure nonsense and something that I vehemently detest.

    We should look for the best people to run the Government. The DLP blames everybody else and take no responsibility for anything. They are so great that they have done no wrong. The DLP introduced a budget that raise taxes, road tax, water rates etc. They increase vat, now they sending home people , intent on cutting salaries and a whole load of nonsense.

    The DLP LIED TO THE PEOPLE, HAVE FAILED TO MANAGE THE ECONOMY AND JUST CANNOT MANAGE

    THE DLP SHOULD RESIGNED AND CALL FRESH ELECTIONS.
    LET THE PEOPLE DETERMINE WHAT PROGRAMME THEY WILL SUPPORT.

    ALL THE TALK ABOUT SENDING HOME PEOPLE AND CUTTING SALARIES SHOULD CEASE NOW. GET BACK TO THE POLLS.

    THE REAL DISCUSSION SHOULD BE ABOUT SEEKING A FRESH MANDATE.
    THERE MUST BE FRESH ELECTIONS
    THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD RESIGN

    THIS IS NOT JOKE WE JOKING
    THIS IS SERIOUS BUSINESS

  27. Well Well Avatar
    Well Well

    I don’t believe it’s a matter of white or black, what Dr. Fraser said made absolute sense and the doctors who should know agree with him, that is why the politicians are so defensive and spouting garbage that makes absolutely no sense.

    As Sith said….sell the damn airport (they have sold everything else, what is one more) and look after the QEH and the health care system on the island.

  28. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    Amazing! But the norm on BU! A set of illiterates commenting on stuff they know nothing about. A set of illiterates being unable to stick to the topic on hand, while seeking to impress by cutting and pasting from articles which include a lot of unscientific facts such as “beta blockers weaken the heart.”

    Surely the issue is can we afford a new hospital at this time? Do we need a new hospital? If so why?
    How can the role of the QEH be most effective? How?
    How can we improve primary and secondary care so as to reduce the need for tertiary care?
    Why do we give medical illiterates charge over our healthcare system?

    So far today Askquith | 26/12/2013 at 11:30 am has made the contribution which makes the most sense

    Medium Term: Put the doctors in charge not the politicians. Setup a real board of medical experts to oversee the entire health care system. I never could understand why politicians think they know more about health care than the people who went to school to learn about it.
    IT IS AS SIMPLE AS THAT!
    GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THINGS
    GO ZONE BY ZONE
    ASCERTAIN THE NEEDS AND DISCERN HOW THEY CAN BE ADDRESSED IN THE MOST COST EFFECTIVE WAY.

  29. JUST ASKING Avatar
    JUST ASKING

    Pearl | 26/12/2013 at 9:32 am | Reply

    I believe Sir Henry Fraser. Its a no brainer.

    The DLP have been telling us everything is ok for months and years and now look! I don’t know what they can do to regain credibility.

    What happened with St. Joseph hospital? Wasn’t some American or Canadian company going to take it over and run it as a private hospital?’

    THE DLP IS MADE UP OF A BUNCH OF LIARS , WHO LIE THROUGH THEIR TEETH BECAUSE FOR THEM , IT IS A GAME AND AS LONG AS THEY WIN, ITS OKAY !

    AFTER THE 1991-94 DEBACLE , I DID NOT THINK THAT THEY WOULD REGAIN THE GOVERNMENT IN UNDER 30 YEARS BASED ON THE NONSENSE THEY DID BUT STUPID UNINFORMED PEOPLE LED ASTRAY BY PEOPLE WITH AGENDAS ENSURED THAT AFTER 14 YEARS THEY WERE BACK TO OFFICE–

    —————–BIGGEST MISTAKE EVER IN THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF BARBADOS.

    THE DLP IS NOT GOING TO GET IT RIGHT ANYTIME SOON. THIS PRESENT CROWD HAS TO MOVE OUT AND THEY ARE NOT GOING TO GO ANYWHERE SO WE ARE IN DEEP SHIT.

    I HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THE BLP TO RESCUE BARBADOS. THE ECONOMIC TWIN TOWERS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE OWEN SEYMOUR ARTHUR AND DOCTOR CLYDE MASCOLL CAN SAVE BARBADOS.

    WHY ARE WE SUFFERING UNDER THE INCOMPETENCE OF THE DLP ?

    WE HAVE CARRIED A JOKE TOO FAR !
    TOO FAR NOW
    THIS IS NONSENSE
    LETS DO SOMETHING NOW
    CALL FOR ELECTIONS AND
    DUMP THE DLP

  30. CHAUCER Avatar
    CHAUCER

    @David
    Following financial measures to stabilize the QEH:
    1.25% Health Levy on all salaries, wages and self employed incomes
    10% tax on all medical insurance premiums
    Outsourcing the District hospitals
    $5 copay on all drugs dispensed at the QEH

  31. David Avatar
    David

    @Chaucer

    So how de we address the management/leadership problem?

    If we do not the cycle will repeat.

  32. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    LOL @ GP
    Whew!
    Bushie thought you were sleeping until New Years yuh…. Wake up and take yuh licks like a Doc GP…. LOL…think ANON easy…. 🙂

    Bushie DONE KNOW that you would like the idea of putting DOCTORS. In charge of health care….. LOL..that is the next worse thing to politicians.
    Would you put morticians in charge of reducing road fatalities?
    Would you put children in charge of the cookies?
    …..actually Bajans might….after all we put politicians in charge of our money …..ROTFL Ha Ha muh belly…..

    Just because YOU happen to be a conscientious doctor does NOT mean that most doctors are…. Wuh you probably does drive a Datsun…or worse a Ford LOL Ha Ha

    How many doctors you know without Mercs or Beemers?
    Put doctors in charge and in short order only private patients who can pay “Merc money” would get operations …or even attention….
    WAIT!….you never heard about Animal Farm…?

    Who should be responsible for National Health Care….?
    A national Cooperative body made up of all citizens and responsible for collecting and spending the health taxes.

  33. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    Who should be responsible for National Health Care….?
    A national Cooperative body made up of all citizens and responsible for collecting and spending the health taxes.

    OK PROVIDING THEY ARE SANE AND SAVY

    IDEALLY THOUGH, DOCTORS WHO CARE AND WHO THINK SHOULD RUN OUR HEALTH SYSTEM

    WE NOW HAVE NON DOCTOR WITH THESE FUNNY HEALTHCARE DEGREES RUNNING HOSPITALS TO THE GROUND

    ANON HAS BASICALLY SPEWED SOME STUFF HE FOUND ONLINE IN WHICH MUCH OF THE SCIENCE IS ACTUALLY INACCURATE.

    HE REAL EASY BT

  34. ac Avatar
    ac

    Yes Senator we have heard it all before constuctive as well as destructive crticism .now it is YOUR TIME to step up to the plate and offer meaningful as well as thought out solutions. try if u can to step far away fromthe glare of media spot light political grandstanding and publicity. we have seen all that before. THANK YOU ac.

  35. CHAUCER Avatar
    CHAUCER

    Identify a govt department, public agency or corp that you consider well managed

  36. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    RE David | 26/12/2013 at 7:16 am | Reply
    @Caswell & GP
    Why aren’t these studies made public?

    THE KAISER REPORT WAS AVAILABLE TO ME DURING 79-85 WHEN I SENT MY PROPOSAL TO TOM ADAMS. IT WAS KNOCKING AROUND THE HEALTH CENTERS AT THE TIME.

    THE FACILITY THAT YOU PROVIDE, AND THE CONTEMPORARY TECHNOLOGY DID NOT ALLOW EASY DISSEMINATION TO THE PUBLIC THEN, AS IS NOW THE CASE.

  37. 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

    BU upgrades are not up to par, words are very small and the vote by starts were better , UP and Down , as we see it no comment is 100% so up and down dont give a range. Agree or Not

  38. David Avatar
    David

    @Chaucer

    Can’t think of one, perhaps the NPC?

  39. JUST ASKING Avatar
    JUST ASKING

    THE DLP LIED TO THE PEOPLE, HAVE FAILED TO MANAGE THE ECONOMY AND JUST CANNOT MANAGE

    THE DLP SHOULD RESIGN AND CALL FRESH ELECTIONS.
    LET THE PEOPLE DETERMINE WHAT PROGRAMME THEY WILL SUPPORT.

    ALL THE TALK ABOUT SENDING HOME PEOPLE AND CUTTING SALARIES SHOULD CEASE NOW. GET BACK TO THE POLLS.

    THE REAL DISCUSSION SHOULD BE ABOUT SEEKING A FRESH MANDATE.
    THERE MUST BE FRESH ELECTIONS
    THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD RESIGN
    THEY HAVE BETRAYED THE PEOPLE AND CANNOT BE TRUSTED TO KEEP THEIR WORD

    THEY WANT TO CUT THE PUBLIC SERVICE AND CUT SALARIES TOO
    WHO IS GUARANTEE THAT THEY KEEP THEIR WORD ON ANYTHING
    L——I——–A ———R————S
    THIS IS NOT JOKE WE JOKING
    THIS IS SERIOUS BUSINESS

  40. lighthouse Avatar
    lighthouse

    let me tell you folk some stuff. I am sure that the hospital can no longer supply free health care to all these mendicant brutes in this country. Too many of us work and pay not a single cent in tax but yet expect free services. The civil servants and other structured employed workers are the burden of beast . They pay paye and vat. Scores such as carpenters. masons, vendors, electricians, fishermen, hairdressers, and other self employed persons are common criminals who live like leeches. If each were to play their part there would be more money to provide these free services. Senator Fraser can say the truth but there is a bigger picture. Come on bajans get responsible. The hospital may be in a disgusting state but there are plenty of everyday staff making things work with small finances for a bunch of unthankful citizens who are unwilling to support their country. They prefer to guzzle rum and women. All the while they leave of trail children that the state has to care for. And the majority are our wufless men who shoot up and chop up others to put further strain on the hospital. Come on Senator Fraser put the whole picture. I nearly forgot the thiefing demons who walk about the hospital shopping for groceries, toiletries. medicines and other homes supplies from the hospital supplies without shame. “Employees”. That is why sometimes common stuff such as hand soap runs out. It has nothing to do with the government, B or D.

  41. Pat Avatar
    Pat

    In Barbados recently, a 22 year old died one month after giving birth at the QEH, at the QEH. The QEH had sent her to the psychiartric saying she had post partum depression (she did after her first birth). She told the Dr. there, that she was not feeling well and suspected they had left “something” inside of her. The good Dr. in Black Rock sent her back to QEH. We all know the stigma attached to mental illness in Barbados. they did not listen to her. Allegations are they considered her mad…., what does she know…., criticizing us Drs. In short they just ignored her. A nurse found her dead on the floor. An autopsy was held, and the Dr. stated she had died from a blood clot. Long and short of it is, they left placenta inside the woman.

  42. Pat Avatar
    Pat

    First order of the day:

    Hire a qualified Hospital Administrator. Someone with a Masters or Doctorate in Hospital Administration.

  43. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    THE PROBLEM IN THE USA IS THAT THEY EQUATE HEALTH CARE WITH HAVING HEALTH INSURANCE………..THIS IS FALSE

    THE PROBLEM IN BARBADOS IS THAT WE EQUATE HEALTH CARE WITH WHAT HAPPENS AT THE HOSPITAL

    PLEASE CAN ANYONE THINK ABOUT THIS PROPERLY?

  44. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ GP
    You may wish to dismiss ANON casually, but that blogger makes a STRONG case and also answers your question about our equating health care with the QEH.
    Health care should REALLY be about PROACTIVE measures to AVOID illness, and to promote good health and wellness.
    Unfortunately, this kind of thinking leads to stressful implications – such as eating healthful meals, avoiding easy and cheap junk, exercising and avoiding the stresses of life…. So most of us take the easy road and take Health care to mean REACTIVE actions that can be taken to keep us alive to continue our bad and lazy habits after we wreck our health through folly…..THUS THE QEH.

    …never mind the Americans, they equate every shiite to money…..or more correctly now, money that they owe the Chinese…

  45. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    The problem with Health in Barbados starts with over eating unbalanced meals on a regular basis.

    Macaroni and Cheese pie, fried chicken, fried “proper?”pork, etc and minimal vegetables.

    We use too much salt in cooking and too much sugar in drinks.
    Also we don’t exercise unless we are doing physical work.

    Health care policy should be framed by Medical doctors and the QEH should be run by qualified Health care administrators advised by competent
    doctors.

    I still don’t understand why little almost broke Barbados must rebuild the QEH in one shot or build a Brand new Hospital.

    How about rebuilding and refurbishing sections of the Hospital over the next 10 years?

  46. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    Bush Tea
    ANON IS COPYING AND PASTING INACCURATE STUFF THAT HE DOES NOT HAPPEN
    GIVE ME THE JOB AND COME WITH ME AND THE CHIEF PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE, THE MOH FOR THE RESPECTIVE ZONE, HEAD TEACHERS, POST MASTER GENERAL , PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICERS, AND LETS GO PARISH BY PARISH, AND WE WILL IN THREE MONTHS GIVE YOU A REPORT OF PRELIMINARY FINDINGS AND A PLAN OF HOW WE WILL USE EXISTING RESOURCES, AND TELL YOU WHAT WE FURTHER NEED TO PREVENT MOST OF THE POPULACE CROSSING THE QEH CORRIDORS.

  47. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ GP
    You are talking about what YOU would do.
    ANON is talking about what the others ROUTINELY do. You are not the average GP.

  48. David Avatar
    David

    In the real world to get things done there must be negotiating and compromising, give and take. This is where the professional steeped in idealism may hit a wall.

  49. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    I AM TALKING ABOUT WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM IN BARBADOS FROM THE BOTTOM UP

    NO ONE ROUTINELY DOES WHAT ANON HAS CUT AND PASTED ANYWHERE ,

    ANY WAY IM GOING TO WATCH THE TEST MATCH

  50. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Well said David.
    ….either that or carry a very big stick…like a bushman 🙂

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