GPHC makes excuses for absence of critical dialysis solution

The original article can be found in: Kaieteur News

The lives of nine persons in need of Peritoneal Dialysis are in the hands of officials at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). These officials are reportedly making excuses for the absence of a critical solution used in the dialysis.
Peritoneal Dialysis is a procedure performed to correct an imbalance of fluid in the blood or to remove toxins, drugs, or any other waste excreted by the kidney. To do this, a sterile solution is instilled into the person’s abdomen through a tube.
While the solution is inside the patient, it absorbs the waste from the blood vessels around the abdomen. After about 30 minutes, the solution and waste are drained from the abdomen and according to a kidney patient, Dr. Aubrey Gill, this process has to be repeated for about five times per day.
Dr. Gill said that the problem at the GPHC is the absence of the sterile solution for the past three weeks.
The affected persons are Harold Teixeira, Keith Hinds, Lloyd McKay, Shelly Williams, Emran Ali, Melvin Gordon, Cedric Barrow, Dawn Butcher and Dr. Aubrey Gill
Gill explained that they (patients) are currently using the solution until they can find their respective donors for the kidney transplant surgery.
“This solution is very important; it acts as an artificial kidney. It goes into your abdominal cavity and flushes the waste out of your body. We would normally collect this solution from the hospital and use it five times per day,” the kidney patient said.
The frustrated and scared Gill said for the past three weeks, he, as well as the other patients, has not used the solution. That is currently resulting in a built up of waste in their body and could result in death.
“In the event that we do not receive the solution, we will surely die due to the fact that our kidneys are not functioning and there is a building up of toxin in our blood,” a traumatized Gill noted.
He also said that there was a recent meeting with the affected patients and the hospital’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Michael Khan, where they were told that the facility only has “some expired solution which we can use if we want.”
As of yesterday, a source confirmed that the hospital does not have the sterile solution in its bond.
Yesterday, when Kaieteur News contacted the hospital’s CEO for a comment, he said “I don’t know anything about it and that is my comment! I cannot remember having any meeting with anyone because I meet hundreds of persons every day but if I see the person I will remember.”

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