Health Minister debunks rumours COVID patients not coming out hospital alive!
'Panic & anxiety'
Of the 23 confirmed COVID-19 related deaths in the territory, one person died at home while the others passed away while patients at Dr D. Orlando Smith Hospital.
This fact has caused some persons in the community to speculate that being admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 is like a death sentence.
“There is a lot of panic and anxiety; persons are WhatsApping me, concerned. They feel that if you go into the hospital with COVID-19, you are not coming back out alive,” Premier Fahie said on the Tuesday, July 20, 2021 edition of VIP Let’s Talk show on ZBVI 780 AM.
“Is that a true statistic, is that correct? Because as far as I know there are a lot of persons that go in and were treated and were able to come back out, but that statistic is not yet out there,” he inquired from the Health Minister.
Premier Fahie said it was also not fair to the hardworking staff at Dr D. Orlando Smith Hospital, “but it is being said very heavy, and we should not play around with these things and hide behind a banana tree. Can you clarify that for us?”
'Number of discharges made'- Hon Malone
Minister for Health and Social Development Honourable Carvin Malone (AL) replied that the statements in the public domain are untrue.
“We had a number of discharges that were made. It is important that we only take the officials' words. There are recoveries,” he said but noted that the official statistics would be revealed at another time.
Persons falsely declaring deaths
He said what was also troubling is that persons who falsely declaring patients death. This, he explained, has caused families unnecessary heartache.
“I am not sure why people are so wicked, doing these things,” he said.
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40 Responses to “Health Minister debunks rumours COVID patients not coming out hospital alive!”
We have fast becoming a nation of embicile, with lots of MA's and Doctorates rolling around the Territory.
How do you know it's Delta? No official notice was made that it was Delta?
I have known people who took the vaccine and died......
People are coming out alive and well. Thank God.
Just make sure dem ventilators dem properly sanitized
We are going to get through this eventually. Be positive.
Knowledge is power. When knowledge is activated, that is wisdom. Be wise, and join force with those of us that are prolife-minded people, rather than passive and ignorance-minded people. Life is God's best gift to human. Let us fight against the killer decease: covid-19 together with lifesaving proven knowledge, and death denying wisdom.
Here in the UK, we had 130,000 deaths with covid. That would be the same proportion of our population as if the BVI had 60 deaths. The deaths have touched every family. Our deaths mostly occurred during spring 2020 and around last Christmas, before vaccination was widely available. So we know what the BVI are going through. Fortunately, now the majority of us are now fully vaccinated and the death rate is low.
Gibraltar has the same population as the BVI, they have had 94 deaths with covid, the deaths have now stopped and 90% of the population has been vaccinated. The BVI is further ahead with their vaccination than Gibratar was when the covid was spreading, so, most likely the BVI death toll will be much lower, I hope so.
I have sympathy for the hospital staff who will be under greater stress than anyone else could imagine. I can see that they have been doing everything possible to care for the sick and dying. I wish that all those in the BVI follow their advice.