A story that a shooting victim had to wait five hours at the Chateaubelair Hospital for an ambulance from Kingstown, reportedly because the one based near him did not have enough gas to take him to the capital is far from the truth according to an official release from the Ministry of Health.
“The Ministry would like to inform the general public that the report (as was circulated on social media) that there was no gas for the ambulance to take a shooting victim from the Chateaubelair Smart Hospital to Kingstown Hospitals is far from the truth.” an official release from the Ministry of Health stated.
The release goes on to state that “based on preliminary investigation conducted by the Ministry, it is confirmed that the ambulance in question had sufficient gasoline to transport the patient to the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital.”
The Ministry of Health said that it regrets any inconvenience caused by this incident and that further investigations are being conducted to ascertain why the patient was not transported to the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital.
