THIS newspaper would like to once again extend our most sincere of apologies to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), the Nation’s provider of Health Services, and all the hard-working and obviously upset staff members of that public health institution.

Our apology follows public ridicule over an article published in the Guyana Chronicle on Saturday, January 25th under the headline –“Young mother and newborn baby die within hours of each other at GPHC – devastated relatives hoping PMEs provide answers”.
Chronicle’s Editor-in-Chief, who is very upset about the erroneous article, has already launched an investigation, the outcome of which revealed that the reporter, Shirley Thomas, wrote “a city hospital” in her article, but a SUB-EDITOR somehow interpreted that to mean GPHC. While the sub-editor is claiming it was a genuine mistake with no ulterior motive, the Editor-in-Chief believes it was too embarrassing a mistake for him not to be sanctioned.