In light of the surfacing of a photograph of a mother breastfeeding her newborn under a bed in the maternal ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) last week, Public Health Minister Dr. George Norton says doctors and nurses need to exercise greater vigilance.
Norton told Stabroek News the woman was admitted to the maternal ward at the GPHC on March 19 and delivered her baby the following day. However, the baby was discovered to have been born with jaundice and was thus required to undergo Phototherapy at the hospital.
During this time, another pregnant woman was admitted to the hospital and the two mothers were made to