Submitted by islandgal
I have been waiting to see if any of the BU posters will at least post something on this very serious problem we have with our health care system. But as usual no one has come forward as yet.
Recently I was at Sandy Crest where there were two patients who needed to get to the QEH asap. The staff were calling around for ambulances and not one could be found. Finally one was located and it took the first patient to the hospital. The next patient was going into cardiac arrest and every attempt to find another ambulance was in vain. I asked if the first ambulance could come back and take the patient to the QEH and was told that it was no longer available. You could hear the frantic calls by the doctors to the QEH about the patient was in a terrible state. He needed to get to ICU ASAP but no one could find an ambulance. I read in the papers recently about the death of a patient who couldn’t get an ambulance to take her to the hospital while her family watched her painful death.
I heard on a call in program about another incident where someone’s family was in ICU and the drip had run dry. The family member asked if another drip was needed. The reply was that they have the drip but not the medication to put into the drip. This was another ICU case. The family member frantically called around and found the medication at Sandy Crest, bought it and took it back to the QEH. This caller said she had tears in her eyes.
Our health care has been compromised. The lack of ambulances are due to the lack of gurneys so the ambulance drivers report to work and play dominoes. How can any government stand up and broadcast to the world that they are training for Ebola and yet there are no ambulances specially outfitted.
Barbadians are being asked to pay for their health care. What are they getting for their money? Death because of lack of ambulances and critical drugs? This is very serious and many of you posters probably do not think that it may happen to you or a family member. Do not relax, this can happen to you at anytime. Unlike the politicians no doubt they will have access to ambulances including Air Ambulances. Yet we mortals must be sacrificed for the sake of budget cuts and lying politicians.
We have an epidemic of Chickungunya and yet no one can test for it on the island. We hear from the PM down that Barbados has the BEST of everything, Health care, Civil Service, Education and yet we cannot meet the needs of our population. Nothing functions as it should. One thing for sure is that we have the BEST BRASSBOWLS ( thank you Bushie) on the island in charge. Where will we go from here? We brag about being first world and yet operating as a third world country. Let us hope that Ebola never reaches our shores because we have already signed our death certificate. How much more can the population take?
With a very heavy heart,
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