Dear Editor,
The continuing state of affairs which sees the Riverton dump being set ablaze with an almost surgical precision yearly has once again catapulted a number of local issues into the spotlight of public scrutiny. Among these issues are the recycled opinions and views as to what to do with that former landfill as well as how to go about ensuring that the dump doesn't continue to burn with such regularity. All of these views, important as they be, sadly may be continue to be returned to for years to come.
One issue which has been brought back to the fore by this suffocating mess is the need for the municipality of Portmore to, once and for all, have its own hospital facility. The frantic scenes of young children, high school students and adults being rushed to various health-care dispensing facilities across the Corporate Area and St Catherine served, in the watery eyes of many, to forcibly resubmit the point that the need for a first-rate hospital complex/facility within the confines of the biggest residential community in the English-speaking Caribbean is more necessary now than ever before.
One understands that it will take more than a letter to trigger the activities which will re-engage the thought of a Portmore hospital. In fact, it will take vision, financial support, and community acceptance. However, notwithstanding the potential difficulties, it is clear that this idea is one whose time has long come.
Noel Forbes Matherson
noelmatherson@gmail.com
It's really time for a Portmore hospital
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The continuing state of affairs which sees the Riverton dump being set ablaze with an almost surgical precision yearly has once again catapulted a number of local issues into the spotlight of public scrutiny. Among these issues are the recycled opinions and views as to what to do with that former landfill as well as how to go about ensuring that the dump doesn't continue to burn with such regularity. All of these views, important as they be, sadly may be continue to be returned to for years to come.
One issue which has been brought back to the fore by this suffocating mess is the need for the municipality of Portmore to, once and for all, have its own hospital facility. The frantic scenes of young children, high school students and adults being rushed to various health-care dispensing facilities across the Corporate Area and St Catherine served, in the watery eyes of many, to forcibly resubmit the point that the need for a first-rate hospital complex/facility within the confines of the biggest residential community in the English-speaking Caribbean is more necessary now than ever before.
One understands that it will take more than a letter to trigger the activities which will re-engage the thought of a Portmore hospital. In fact, it will take vision, financial support, and community acceptance. However, notwithstanding the potential difficulties, it is clear that this idea is one whose time has long come.
Noel Forbes Matherson
noelmatherson@gmail.com
It's really time for a Portmore hospital
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