Addressing The Comments From My FaceBook Post

This comment was made by a healthcare professional. Now regarding his statement that "there are clinics and other hospitals equipped to handle the overflow". So now I want to know,

• Who is reponsible for educating the public about where they need to go while these renovations are being done?
•  And how well equipped are these other hospitals and clinics? 

I also communicated with a former highschool mate who is now a medical doctor and this doctor told me something similar, that now that healthcare is free in Jamaica, everyone rushes to the hospital whether or not their case is an emergency. Now of course we are all happy that there is free healthcare, but now the healthcare management will have to develop a strategy to to handle the triage areas so that there is not overcrowding.

So the questions that come to my mind are,

• Why dont people think that they should go to these other clinics that are available? 
• Do these other clinics offer the standard of care that is required? 

So take my family member for instance who recently went to Cornwall Regional Hospital because of  his medical condition which included high blood pressure and he needed medication that was not available over the counter. Since the hospital only gives priority to trauma cases, what other clinic could my family have taken him to that offers the medication needed that is not available over the counter, and who is responsible for informing the public of where people with such cases can go. With such a case as his, where he needed the attention of a physican, why did he have to sit on a wooden chair for 4 days and not even offered a bed?

I am just a concerned family member. I am very open minded and always eager to learn. This is not an attempt to shame the government but to seek answers to questions that obviously other people are asking and hoping that bringing awareness to this situation those who are able to help can do so. There are many Jamaicans right now in the diaspora who are not even aware that the situation is this bad, and if they dont know about the problem, how can they help to fix it?