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Some workers at Linstead Public Hospital in St. Catherine are accusing the facility’s management of keeping them in the dark about the situation at the hospital regarding the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). They claimed that, based on information being circulated, a number of employees – including a member of the management team – have tested positive for the highly contagious virus. They also claimed that some employees, who had tested positive, have been returning to work without receiving the standard second negative test, which would clear them to resume duties. The Beacon has been trying for a week to get a response from the hospital’sRead More →

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Chief Executive Officer at Linstead Public Hospital in St Catherine Paul McIntyre has admitted that prisoners and other patients are treated in the same area at the medical facility. He however said police officers are always at the hospital to guard prisoners while they are being treated. McIntyre made the comments after a resident, Ichael Clarke-Lee, this week claimed that she witnessed porters – not police – taking a prisoner into the medical facility for treatment. She added that prisoners are driving fear into other patients because they are placed in the general Accident and Emergency area, and are not guarded by police or privateRead More →

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Chief Executive Officer of Linstead Public Hospital, Paul McIntyre, said a steady increase in the number of patients using the medical facility has exacerbated the challenge being faced with the shortage of beds. But he said plans are afoot to source additional beds, and to create space for more than the 42 beds that the hospital can now accommodate. McIntyre made the promise after The Beacon reported observing cramped conditions at the hospital, where a number of patients – including the elderly, spend nights and days in discomfort on folding chairs and wheelchairs. In fact, nurses were seen treating one man who lay on a setRead More →