Two years after a barber was forced to deliver a baby after no one at the nearby CC Nicholson Hospital could aid a woman in labour, the Ministry of Health has announced that the hospital would soon have around the clock maternity services.
“Plans are afoot to make the CC Nicholson Hospital a 24-hour delivery service subject to the availability of medical personnel,” was the response given by Minister of Health Dr. Bheri Ramsaran to a written question posed by APNU Parliamentarian Dr. Karen Cummings.
She had directed questions to Ramsaran on whether plans were afoot to make the hospital a 24-hour delivery service given that