Dear Editor,
On January 15, 2016, the Kaieteur News published a letter from me about a missing heart machine. This equipment had gone missing about two months earlier, as well as dental equipment from the Anna Regina Health Centre, but no reports had been made to the police.
I am not sure if any disciplinary action was taken against the persons or person whose responsibility it was to report this incident to the police as soon as the discovery was made, because from all appearances it was a clear case of break and enter and larceny or simple larceny. Failing to make a report demonstrates how carefree and unconcerned the administration of that institution is. Quite recently I received the good news from a usually reliable source that the heart machine in question is back and is serving the people well; of course that is the purpose we the taxpayers bought it for. I was later told this vital piece of equipment was in the possession of a medical professional, and that person left, but the same was not handed over to the authorities. Well, if this is so, then that situation can only be described as gross mismanagement. I am very much concerned when these things happen and I have every right to be so; you see I am in that large group of persons who find it very difficult to travel to Georgetown to have a medical examination done at a private hospital when it can be done at the Suddie Public Hospital.
I was taught not to envy people, because there would always be lesser and greater persons than myself. There would always be persons who can go to North America and Europe for minor aliments such as fever and diarrhoea and to have their dentures redone.
The story of the missing heart machine and dental equipment needs to be investigated, and the report made public, and anyone who is found to have been negligent should face the consequences of their actions or inaction.
Yours faithfully,
Archie W Cordis
