An Essequibo mother is being accused of abandoning another baby at the Suddie Public Hospital.
Regional Democratic Council (RDC) councillor Malika Courtman disclosed at the RDC statutory meeting for November that a baby girl has been at the hospital for two months. Courtman, a nurse by profession at the Suddie Public Hospital, said that the child was transferred from the Oscar Joseph Hospital at Charity to the Suddie Public Hospital when she was nine days old. Today the child is two months old and to date, the mother has never revisited the hospital.
Speaking at the statutory meeting of the Regional Democratic Council (RDC), Courtman said that it is about time that RDC councillors become familiar with the matter. She said that it is the nurses and doctors who are taking care of the baby. The baby is said to be healthy but requires constant attention from the hospital staff. The baby currently is nameless but is being affectionately called “Devina” by nurses and doctors. Courtman also disclosed that when the doctors and nurses are otherwise engaged with patients, the baby cries uncontrollably as there is no one to provide care.