IN the aftermath of a video circulating about the Diamond Diagnostic Centre, Medical Superintendent at the hospital Dr Erica Kirton said its content is woefully inaccurate, mischievous and a deliberate attempt to create undue confusion.
Dr Kirton said that the video which is making its rounds on Facebook is not a current one, but one that was made about two years ago.

She related that about two years ago there were some major repairs that had to be done to the hospital owing to a number of defects and poor quality works that were executed on the building when it was first constructed in 2007.

This, she said, resulted in the hospital along with the RDC Region Four and the Ministry of Public Health executing several repairs in and around the building to correct these faults.
“This is certainly an old building and I can tell you this as of two years ago it was the very video that we had about the leakage around the pharmacy area. Two years ago, there were major repairs that had to be done around the pharmacy area and a few other areas, because when the building was constructed, several works that were done were of a very poor quality.”

She continued: “Unfortunately, now that we are seeing more and more of the poor works done then as we go along. However, what has happened is that while we had done some major repairs to several parts of the roof, we found recently [that] there are beginning to be new leaks around the pharmacy area, but I can assure you that it is not as severe as it is being peddled on Facebook.”

However, Dr Kirton noted that with election in the air many persons are resorting to all kinds of schemes and tactics to promote their political preference.
She warned that while they have a right to push their political agenda, they must be cognisant of dispelling mistruths, lies and creating confusion, declaring that the public must always act responsibly.

“I am very disappointed that someone would seek to use an old video to score political points as this is unacceptable in any right-thinking society and I would like to warn the public that they have a responsibility to themselves and the public and trust that we would put our political preferences aside and not draw important institutions like the hospital into their political games,” she urged.

She disclosed that the office of the Regional Democratic Council at Triumph sent an engineer to examine the works that need to be done and a contractor has already been engaged.
She noted that remedial work will be done on Monday to ensure that the leak is repaired.