THE Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has again come in for kudos. This time, from a deeply gratified and rejoicing East Coast Demerara family, whose loved one’s life was hanging precariously in the balance, but who was saved after a successful surgery at the institution.

Fifty-four-year-old, Winston Khan, last Saturday woke up to find that his left hand and foot were numb and he could not move them. In fact, in his words, his left side was “completely dead.”
Naturally, Khan panicked and called out to his wife. She quickly alerted other family members and a decision was made to take him to the GPHC. On arrival at the Accident and Emergency (A&E) Unit, he was triaged then sent on to the treatment area where he was seen by a doctor. He was subjected to a Computerized Tomography (CT) Scan and other tests, but the results of the CT scan determined that there was a clot in his brain, which was responsible for the condition he was suffering.
Khan was almost immediately prepared for surgery and taken to the main operating theatre where he was operated on. The doctor removed the clot from his brain and hours later he was wheeled out of theatre and into the recovery room.
On awakening, he was surprised to find that the life lost in his hand and foot had been restored and that, incredibly, he was able to move them once more.
He was kept in hospital for a few days, and by the second day he was flexing the leg and in fact, “firing kicks.” Likewise, he was also throwing punches with the left hand which was previously “dead.”
Given a new lease on life, Khan is first of all thankful to God for this miracle he has received, and secondly, joins his family in expressing profound gratitude to the doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital for their timely and effective intervention.
“And I thank God that the doctors moved promptly and performed the surgery without wasting time, or my condition would have ended up worse,” Winston said.
Meanwhile, his relatives declared, “I would tell anybody, if you’re sick, don’t be hesitant, go to the Georgetown Hospital. The doctors are efficient and the service is good.” They claimed knowledge of situations where persons took their loved ones to certain private hospitals, paid hefty sums of money and the patients experienced no signs of recovery. In the long run, they ended up taking the patients out of the private hospital and taking them to the GPHC. Surprisingly, after being treated by the public hospital’s doctors, they experienced dramatic recovery, and were able to arise from their hospital beds and lead healthy and normal lives once more.

(By Shirley Thomas)