Last Updated on July 15, 2019, 2:32 AM AST by Anthony Morris
An outraged public in St Kitts and Nevis is awaiting to hear from the Minister of Health Hon Eugene Hamilton and Junior Minister, Sen the Hon Wendy Phipps following allegations that a baby died at the J N France General Hospital after an expired drug was administered.
“This awful heartbreaking story was sent to me by some nurses from the Hospital in St Kitts: “Sad News! Obi a baby died last evening (Saturday) at the Hospital in St Kitts of curable neonatal jaundice because the drug to cure it was expired since 2017 and no one reordered any,” Washington-based Nevisian blogger, Everton (Obi) Powell posted on his FaceBook page on Sunday morning.
“The tragic incident left the distraught mother crying uncontrollably and even nurses broke down crying as the baby could have been saved,” Powell posted.
Conditions at the medical institutions – the three hospitals and the clinics around the island have deteriorated due to ministerial neglect, lack of medication and prescription drugs and supplies and large-scale resignation of trained nurses as well as the forced retirement of senior nurses.
Civil servants and members of the general public use the services of persons to register complaints and their concerns on the deteriorating state of affairs in St Kitts and Nevis despite the headline news and statements from the authorities that St Kitts and Nevis is a progressive state “with surpluses, surpluses and surpluses in the treasury.”
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