THE NURSES Association of Jamaica (NAJ) has come out in support of nurses at the Mandeville Regional Hospital in Manchester, who are demanding a retraction of what, they claim is, a libellous statement made by Clarendon resident, Pansy Campbell on Radio Jamaica's current affairs talk show, Hotline on June 11, 2003.
In a release Monday, the NAJ said, while it sympathised with the family on the loss of their infant, it would be closely monitoring the investigations and hope that due process will be allowed to take place.
The Mandeville Regional Hospital has been at the centre of a controversy which has still not cleared up what has happened to the baby Miss Campbell had in August last year. Two weeks ago, a DNA test revealed that a premature infant, who died last September and was tagged "Baby Pansy", was not her child.
She and her boyfriend, Roy McLean, had spent almost a year trying to convince the Mandeville Regional Hospital and the Southern Regional Health Authority (SRHA) that the premature baby was not theirs.
