I be­came ill last week and was hos­pi­talised at the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal, where I spent sev­en days. That time al­lowed me to ob­serve at close range the op­er­a­tions of that in­sti­tu­tion. From ad­mis­sion to dis­charge my treat­ment left noth­ing to be de­sired. I was to­tal­ly im­pressed by the ded­i­ca­tion of all the staff-med­ical, nurs­ing, ad­min­is­tra­tive and sup­port-which they showed to all the pa­tients at the ward to which I was as­signed. The co­or­di­na­tion re­quired to run a hos­pi­tal is be­yond be­lief.

It re­quires the time­ly and in­di­vid­ual in­ter­ven­tion in med­icat­ing each pa­tient (no two pa­tients have the same prob­lem and in dis­pen­sa­tion of med­ica­tion, con­duct of blood-test­ing, pres­sure-test­ing, feed­ing etc one size does not fit all). For what it re­vealed about the ded­i­ca­tion of all the staff I am al­most tempt­ed to say I en­joyed my stay, and, un­like the Hilton, room ser­vice was thrown in. My sin­cer­est thanks to Dr Jha­groo, the car­ing med­ical doc­tors, the nurs­ing staff, the lab­o­ra­to­ry staff, the ad­min­is­tra­tion and sup­port staff and all those at the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal for their care in a cul­ture of car­ing.

Ce­cil O Bernard

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