Walking through the Georgetown Public Hospital becomes an experience of profound despair. The Men’s Surgical Ward, for example, houses ailing men in rooms occupying six beds each, with the concrete floor cold and bare.
The Ward lies in one of the newer wings, and exudes an air of promise, except that patients must endure some sub-par living conditions.
The concrete floor in the rooms and along the corridors remains bare concrete. Patients must walk on this bare, hard, cold concrete, and last week a young man and his wife shuffled along through the winding corridor from his hospital bed to an operating theatre at the other end of