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Report by Warren Bertram, followed by the response of Errol Green, Regional Director, South East Regional Health Authority
By Warren Bertram
Concerns are being raised about how a lack of resources at Kingston Public Hospital is negatively affecting the delivery of health care at the facility.
Radio Jamaica News spoke with Claudette Grant, the daughter of a patient at the facility who complained that her mother was not receiving the treatment she needs due to the resource constraints.
Ms. Grant explained that the issues with the facility started a month ago when her mother fell off a bed at home and suffered a blow to her head and was taken to the hospital.
She said she was then told that her mother was being treated for an infection on the chest, but not for the swelling to the head, and her seemingly deteriorating cognitive functions.
Ms. Grant explained that despite the setting of appointments for a Magnetic resonance imaging, M-R-I, her mother was not taken to do the tests because the hospital had no available ambulance.
She said the cost of getting a private ambulance to take her mother is more than she can afford.
In addition, she said the hospital wants to discharge her mother although she is still in need of care.
When Radio Jamaica News contacted Errol Greene, Regional Director of the South East Regional Health Authority, he said that the transition from outpatient to inpatient care might have led to some confusion with regard to the care of Ms Grant's mother.
He explained that he has since intervened in the situation.
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