The Medical Superintendent at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre, Dr Erica Kirton, has hit out at persons who she says stoop to using the medical institution to peddle their untruths and lies to advance their political agendas.
According to a Region Four release, Dr Kirton was referring to a video circulating about the hospital which she dubbed as “woefully inaccurate, mischievous and a deliberate attempt to create undue confusion.” She clarified that the video which is making its rounds on Facebook is not a current video but one from about two years ago.
The Superintendent explained that about two years ago, some major repairs had to be done to the hospital owing to a number of defects and poor quality works that were done on the building when it was first constructed in 2007. This, she said resulted in the hospital along with the RDC Region Four and the Ministry of Public Health executing several repairs in and around the building to correct these faults.
“This is certainly an old building and I can tell you this as two years ago it was the very video that we had about the leakage around the pharmacy area. Two years ago, there were major repairs that had to be done around the pharmacy area and a few other areas because when the building was constructed several works that were done were of a very poor quality. Unfortunately, now … we are seeing more and more of the poor works done then as we go along. However, what has happened is that while we had done some major repairs to several parts of the roof we found recently there are beginning to be new leaks around the pharmacy area, but I can assure you that it is not as severe as it is being peddled on Facebook,” the Medical Superintendent was quoted as saying.
Dr Kirton however noted that with elections in the air, many persons are resorting to all kinds of schemes and tactics to promote their political preferences. She cautioned that while they have a right to push their political agenda, they should desist from spreading untruths, lies and creating confusion and declared that the public must always act responsibly.
“I am very disappointed that someone would seek to use an old video to score political points as this is unacceptable in any right thinking society and I would like to warn the public that they have a responsibility to themselves and the public and trust that we would put our political preferences aside and not draw important institutions like the hospital in their political games,” she remarked.
She disclosed that the Regional Democratic Council Office at Triumph has already sent an engineer to examine the works that need to be done and a contractor has already been retained. She assured that remedial work will be done today to ensure that the leak is corrected.
