A 29-year-old sanitation worker has lost his life after falling from the fourth storey of the new infectious diseases hospital at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara.

Dead is Kevin Smith of Sophia, Greater Georgetown. The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), in a statement, noted that Smith was using a freight lift, which is only intended for the transport of food and laundry at the facility, when it collapsed, causing him fatal injuries.
The incident occurred at about 13:04h. According to the statement, Smith worked for a private janitorial company, which was contracted by the GPHC.
The hospital has since informed the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and the man’s family.

The infectious diseases hospital, which is still being retrofitted to accommodate cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), is managed by GPHC.
The facility, located at the site of the former Ocean View Hotel in Liliendaal, has been catering for mild patients over the past two months, but with work almost completed on the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), it will be able to cater for 29 critically ill patients at any given time.
After the facility is completed, authorities will start the process of transferring persons from GPHC, which currently has nine patients in its COVID-19 ICU.