Relief in sight

KINGSTON Public Hospital (KPH) has pledged an urgent consultation with doctors at Black River Hospital (BRH) to determine Garfield Granston’s next steps to recovery, months after the 57-year-old was referred for specialist care and surgery following serious spinal injury.

In a press release on Friday, KPH’s management said that it had seriously reviewed Granston’s medical history and acknowledged that his surgery was delayed after its C-arm machine, required to carry out the procedure, went out of service.

Granston was referred to the Orthopaedics Outpatient Clinic at KPH in May 2026, after he had fallen from a tree and sustained fractures in two places along his spine. He was initially rushed to BRH, in St Elizabeth, where he was subsequently told that the hospital lacked the facilities to perform the procedure.