Up to press time last night, Commissioner of Police Henry Greene remained in a private room of a city hospital, hours after he was removed from the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and his condition remains serious.
Stabroek News understands that Greene, who has been a patient at the private institution for more than a week after he was rushed there from his Eve Leary office, was removed from the ICU some time after lunch yesterday.
He was transferred to the ICU after suffering from complications following two surgeries he had over the past few days.
Sources indicated that the commissioner had a surgery for a ruptured vein and another on his digestive tract.
When Stabroek News visited the hospital yesterday, hospital officials were tightlipped but it was confirmed that that he was transferred to a private room with a police guard outside. In addition, there were a few other police officers outside the hospital.
At least one senior police officer turned up at the institution while this newspaper was there but after conversing with the police ranks in front of the hospital compound, he left.
It is understood that no one except the commissioner’s wife is allowed to see him along with religious ministers who have been visiting regularly and praying for him.
There has been no public information on the commissioner’s illness and Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon would only say last week that the Government was satisfied with Greene’s performance but could say little about his illness. Luncheon was asked whether Greene was going to remain as commissioner and he responded in the affirmative.
Since the hospitalization of the 57-year-old Greene, who passed the age of retirement two years ago but was asked to remain at the helm of the force, Deputy Com-missioner Leroy Brummell has been performing the duties of commissioner.
Greene has been in poor health in recent times and has been hospitalized on more than one occasion and at one time was a patient of the Caribbean Heart Institute.
