Mabaruma residents on Saturday complained that the Mabaruma Hospital was without water and they had to fetch it in buckets from creeks for patients but regional vice-chairman Fermin Singh said he was unaware of any water shortage.
A source from the Region One community had told Stabroek News that people were taking bottled water for their relatives to drink at the hospital since there was no water for them to bathe with or drink.
When contacted, Singh said that he had no knowledge of a water shortage at the hospital. “As far as I’m aware the hospital is getting adequate water. The water might have been turned off for a couple hours to prepare the well for the filtering of the water system at the hospital,” he said.
The official said that the staff at the hospital might have failed to inform the patients in the hospital about the system being turned off. Singh added that a new well was recently dug for the Mabaruma Secondary School.
