Patients, relatives back ‘warzone’ claims over Mt Hope A&E conditions

The rel­a­tives of peo­ple re­ceiv­ing treat­ment at the Ac­ci­dent and Emer­gency (A&E) De­part­ment of the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC), Mt Hope, say they ful­ly agree with com­ments from po­lit­i­cal leader of the Pa­tri­ot­ic Front Mick­ela Pan­day, liken­ing con­di­tions at the unit to that of a “war­zone.”

De­spite this, Min­is­ter of Health Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe says that the de­part­ment is fac­ing chal­lenges due to a large in­flux of pa­tients and the in­abil­i­ty of oth­er health fa­cil­i­ties to ease the strain and ac­com­mo­date the pub­lic.

In a post on Face­book last Thurs­day, Pan­day claimed that she vis­it­ed the unit to fol­low up on the con­di­tion of a home­less man whom she helped to re­ceive med­ical at­ten­tion, when she ob­served el­der­ly peo­ple on di­lap­i­dat­ed beds, while oth­ers did not have sheets or pil­lows.