Thieves prey on KPH – Wheelchairs scrapped minutes after being donated to the hospital
Unscrupulous individuals are endangering the lives of persons at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) as they steal the covers of manholes and parts of the wheelchairs used to transport patients.
A fuming CEO of the hospital, Errol Greene, last Wednesday confirmed that the majority of 20 wheelchairs donated by Food For The Poor recently were vandalised within half an hour of the handover.
“One morning, I was walking on the wards and I saw this wheelchair without any tyres. So I called the porter and asked what’s going on. I was told that the tyres were stolen. I called a Sister. She said, ‘Mr Green, we got 20 of these wheelchairs and within half an hour of them being handed over to us, every tyre and tube was stolen from the wheelchairs’,” said an angry Greene.
He noted that the wheels are perfect fits for bicycles and can be removed without using any equipment. Footrests have also been stolen from the wheelchairs, forcing the hospital to fashion replacements from cloth.
Several other items are being repeatedly stolen from the hospital, including the covers of electrical outlets and manhole covers.
Putting people at risk
“I had a meeting with my technical staff yesterday (Tuesday) and the electrician told me that the covers were removed. People come in the hospital with screw drivers and remove the covers, leaving people at risk and the hospital with the possibility of lawsuits,” said Greene.
“I could not believe when the electrician told me, because (here) I am bashing them to say there are some things we need to do to improve the place. We are getting citations from the fire department, asking why so many plugs are uncovered.
“We have electric beds and people cut off the cords,” noted Greene.
He pointed out that the manhole covers were dirt cheap and he was at a loss as to why they would be stolen.
“It’s a constant headache that we have to be monitoring. Toilet seats and toilet tank covers have also been pilfered,” said Greene.
When mi did hear seh deze heartless fckrs did a teef di taps from the primary schools fi sell fi scrap metal I never thought dem could get any lower. Who are these creatures and where did they come from? Hospital wheelchairs? How fckn low will these creatures get? Some crimes fi carry flogging and very long sentences. Dem ppl yah fi ketch a 7yrs at hard labour and 20 strokes a di cat o nine. This shyt keeps happening cause dem know nutten nah come out of it. Since you can’t figure out widdi brain God give you a decent and legal way fi meck money then guh siddung a prison meck di govt find suitable wuck fi u and leave decent living to who can handle it. Ridamndiculous!
Great post.
I hope these thieves have ill health that not even hospital door they see before passing …selah.
Kmt some a unnu will never get out of the slave mentality. Your solution is Flogging and Long sentence fi thief wheelchair and pipe? The very same things happen all over the world, in England they steal metal from the train tracks for the same reasons; the price of copper and other metals keep rising, and they only get a fine, lol. it’s up to the security and other staff of the hospital to ensure that the equipment is secured and accounted for, is only poor people visit public hospitals. they need better security, that’s all. You’re the type of person who would shoot a thief and risks losing your freedom and business instead of building your fence higher, yuh just as fool as the thief.
Try nuh come fi my post cause if mi so fool wah dat meck you for responding to it? Lol. Please go check how many countries still flog ppl fi crimes since you all ketch a slavery. Singapore dat is very rich and very developed did flog di American teenager fi simple littering and graffiti pon dem street, it’s even a crime in Singapore fi log on pon smaddy else wifi connection widdout consent. Almost every East Asian country give a death sentence fi drug trafficking, and nuh meck mi start pon di Middle Eastern countries dem cause fi even have sex outside of marriage is a crime dat come wid a sentence of flogging, and in some a dem countries thieves get dem hand chop off. So when you think me fool, try go find those rich countries that running orderly go ask dem why dem have such stiff sentences.
I am glad you chose England as your example of a civilized management of metal thieves, let us look at how they moved from underdeveloped nation to a developed one, the same progression that Jamaica is currently on, though categorized as developing presently. Memba how the great England handled their thieves in their early years of trying to come into greatness through the exploitation and enslavement of other nations. Thieves were sent to prison, flogged, sent away to colonies as indentured servants for many years(modern day hard labour), and banished to Australia, the great prison colony, and many were hung. Let Jamaica deal with their thieves fittingly as they move through the same economic progression. Go ask Phillipines president how him handling thieves at present and report back :ngakak :ngakak :ngakak
The criminal here has always been the operators of the scrap metal businesses. They have been shut down once before and need to be shut down again
Dem f**kas deh fi dead man kill dem out mek we see wah di country can accomplish. Di country refresh button well wah press. A major disaster affi happen fi some changes gwan.. .it crazy just fi give di country a drink a wata yea.