MY RECENT letter calling for better project management planning was not printed. The letter was not meant to be anti-government but offered constructive criticism at best. Since then one reads in another newspaper, if true, that an engineering company has been asked by the Ministry of Health to provide a quotation for a geotechnical investigation of the site for the proposed specialty hospital—over two months after groundwork had started. The company was said to refuse because of a lack of certain information. This follows the report about money spent on driving piles into the swimming pool ground that was found to be unnecessary. These two reports should raise some possible red flags or reasonable questions by people, politicians, as well as the Chronicle.

The specialty hospital should be treated as an important project by both government and opposition, and must not fail to achieve its potential success in our development plans, due to politics or incompetence. This hospital success cannot come from Guyanese patients only, but from its ability to attract foreign clients who must be satisfied with the quality of treatment and supporting infrastructure around them. This hospital must be built in a manner and in an area that will be free from flooding, unsanitary or unsafe conditions etc. Ideally, this hospital should be designed to expand as needed as a potential medical complex to satisfy the quality and needs of a possible increase of patients from developed nations.