PNP officials, supporters stage protest in New Kingston

Supporters of the People's National Party (PNP) have staged a protest outside the offices of the Ministry of Health and Wellness in New Kingston in relation to the recent death of several babies at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital from a resistant bacteria.

The protesters are publicly adding their voices to the calls for the resignation of Health and Wellness Minister, Dr Christopher Tufton. 

The protest takes place while Tufton and other major health officials are at AC Marriot Hotel for the National Research Conference.  

Among those cheering on the protesters, is Mark Golding, Opposition Leader and President of the PNP.

In his address to the protesters, he said they continue to call for Tufton to resign or be removed from the portfolio in relation to the death of the babies.

"Not only did this outbreak of an infection, which led to the lives of many babies occur under his watch again, but, armed with that information, he decided to keep it to himself and as a result of that, parents who could have made a decision to go to another facility to have their baby, went to the Victoria Jubilee, and some of them got infected, mothers and the babies, and died, and he must be held accountable for that," Golding said.

"That was the wrong decision, because it cost lives," he said. 

Golding said Tufton told Parliament dishonestly that it was the PNP who was fabricating a story about "dogs outside the KPH".

- Ainsworth Morris 

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