Patients are being sent home and surgeries postponed due to the shortage of critical drugs at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), a senior official said yesterday.
Dr. George Norton, Head of the Ophthalmology Department, confirmed reports that surgical sutures, operating materials, medications and “kits†to perform blood test are among the items currently unavailable at the hospital.
This publication was told that medications are not being administered to patients although these were prescribed on their charts.
“When a doctor tells a patient that they required two injections a day, the patient would come and say they only get one, sometimes they don’t get any over the weekend and it is not because doctors are not making requisitions… it is because the items are not being supplied to us,†Norton disclosed.
Dr. George Norton, Head of the Ophthalmology Department, confirmed reports that surgical sutures, operating materials, medications and “kits†to perform blood test are among the items currently unavailable at the hospital.
This publication was told that medications are not being administered to patients although these were prescribed on their charts.
“When a doctor tells a patient that they required two injections a day, the patient would come and say they only get one, sometimes they don’t get any over the weekend and it is not because doctors are not making requisitions… it is because the items are not being supplied to us,†Norton disclosed.