A complaint was made last year to the Ministry of Health by a Berbice nurse against Region 5 councilor Carol Joseph that she was using her office to obtain unusual amounts of a prescription painkiller from the Fort Wellington Hospital.
The nurse is lamenting that months after her first correspondence and a follow up letter on December 13th 2016, no intervention seems to have been made as Joseph continues to access the system.
“To this date no disciplinary action was done to curb this situation…I am still awaiting intervention on this matter,” nurse Shemilyn Marks penned in her correspondence to then Minister of Health Dr. George Norton. Stabroek News tried contacting Norton yesterday to no avail as calls to his mobile and office numbers went unanswered.
When Joseph was contacted yesterday by Stabroek News, she