A nation ' s health at risk
published: Saturday | January 29, 2005

THE EDITOR, Sir:

THE NEW cost of hospital fees is an unbearable burden on Jamaican people. It was hard enough for them to find the money for the last set of fees and while there is an understanding that costs may rise, it cannot be the right thing for the government to put up the fees by so much at one time.

If it is true that the hospitals have been having difficulty in collecting the fees previously charged, how on earth does it expect to collect the fees that they now propose?

The health of the nation is at risk because of a Government that has run the country so badly that it cannot take care of the poor and the destitute. How are they to manage?

I am, etc.,

SALLY PORTEOUS

Deputy mayor of Mandeville