–?? ?“We have to shut up and take everything because it is his house,”- motherUp to late last night, doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) were battling to save the life of a 15-year-old boy who was stabbed once to his abdomen by his 68-year-old father over two eggs.The incident occurred around 01:30pm yesterday at Vevey, Mahaica.Injured is Paul Thomas, a Unity Secondary School student. His 68-year-old father is in Police Custody at the Mahaica Police Station and according to the teen’s mother, Elizabeth, the eggs which caused the “whole stabbing up are burst and scattered in the yard.”According to information reaching Kaieteur News, the teen asked his father, a horse cart operator, for two eggs to give his mother to make eggnog but his father refused and got upset, and took a knife from the kitchen and stabbed his son.Yesterday, at the hospital, the injured teen’s sister,Cheap NHL Adidas Jerseys, Natasha Thomas stood quietly in front the theatre door, awaiting words on her brother’s condition.Natasha Thomas“My father is very tormenting; he can’t see us happy. Every day is a problem with him. He picks trouble with everyone in the house. He beats my mother a lot,” a depressed Natasha told this newspaper.Natasha, a mother of three,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, lives next door to her parents and ten siblings. She explained that she was at her home when she heard arguments emanating from her parents’ quarters. “This is normal; everyday is a problem and normally I would peep out my window and shout on them to stop but I didn’t do that (yesterday) because I only hear his (her father’s) mouth.”A very disturbed Natasha said that a few minutes after the argument, her brother ran out from his house and requested her to take him to the hospital. “I said ‘you joking’ and when I look down on he, I see blood on his pants and he holding a shirt to his belly. I just run inside, put on some clothes and leave.”The injured Thomas was taken to the Mahaicony Cottage Hospital but was later transferred to the GPHC for surgery.Elizabeth, the teen’s mother, told Kaieteur News that she was in the kitchen cooking when the incident occurred.“I was cooking and is bend I bend to take the cover off the pot and he pick up the knife and stabbed my son, right in front my eyes. He does always tell me he gone kill somebody but I never believe him,” the woman cried.She explained that there were twelve eggs on the table and her son asked him for “only two eggs he asked for, only two. He tell his father that he tekking the eggs because he does mind the fowls and he pick it up. After he father start to curse, my son put it down back and he (68-year-old) pick up all the eggs and pelt all away. Then he pick up the knife- all I could have said was ‘oh Lord!’ nothing else.”According to Elizabeth, when her daughter took her son to the hospital, she immediately went to the police station to report the matter. “The police came, took the knife and he to the station.”The woman described her husband as a person who has no respect for anyone. “We have to shut up and take everything because he does always remind us that we living in his house.”On December 17 last, Elizabeth lost one of her sons, Rohan Simon,wholesale nfl jerseys, to an accident at Mahaicony. Rohan and one of his friends were travelling in the tray of an open-back motor pick-up vehicle along the Airy Hall Public Road, Mahaicony,Authentic Cheap Jerseys, when they fell out as the driver was negotiating a turn. Rohan’s friend survived the accident but he wasn’t that lucky.A few years before Rohan’s death, the family also lost two of their young family members, Randy, 8,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, and his three-year-old brother,Jordan Sneakers Wholesale, Junior Thomas. The three-year-old accidently fell into a nearby trench and his brother tried to save him. Both of them drowned.

Minister of Public Health, Dr. George Norton expressed deep concern for the worsening state of infant mortality in Guyana on Friday night during the Budget 2015 debate.Public Health Minister, Dr. George NortonDr. Norton revealed that in the space of five months in 2014, over 160 infants died at the Georgetown Public Hospital.The Opposition was silent when this revelation was brought to the front burner.He said that the coalition government as well as his Ministry finds the situation unacceptable and will be preoccupied with arresting the “grave situation.”Dr. Norton told Members of Parliament that the goal was to reduce infant mortality to less than 14 per 1,000 births but that stands at 23.1, while child mortality rate under five years of age was supposed to be 16 but stands at 24.2 for 2014.The Public Health Minister said, “Actually, the result of a multi indicator cluster survey shows that in Guyana, the probability of dying within the first month of life is 22.9 per 1,000 live births and between birth and first birthday is 31.8.? If you think that is bad, consider that between birth and fifth birthday,Wholesale Jerseys Store, the probability of your child dying here in Guyana is 39.2.”The Health Minister added, “Mr. Speaker, just to give you some hard but accurate data, in 2014, neonatal deaths at the GPHC alone were the following; during the month of June,Supply Cheap Jerseys, there were 25; July, 30, August,Wholesale Jerseys From China, 44; September, 33; October 35 and the trend continues.”Dr. Norton reiterated that this disturbing situation is not only a priority concern to his Ministry but is of a national concern to the APNU/AFC Government. He said, too, that another worrying issue is the high maternal mortality rate.The Member of Parliament said that this is so especially because of the global classification system by the World Health Organization in a just completed report in which Guyana is the only Caricom country, including Haiti that shows “No Progress”.He revealed that the report tracks trends in global maternal mortality rates for the period 1990-2013. The rate in Guyana rose from 210 deaths in 1990 to 250 in 2013.The politician noted that the target was to reduce maternal mortality to below 80 to every 100,000 births which amounts to less than 11 deaths in a year. Dr. Norton said that for this year there are already eight maternal deaths here in Guyana, the latest being Wednesday last.“Mr. Speaker,Authentic Jerseys China, that might be so because among other things, only 37 percent of complicated pregnancy received appropriate care. In Guyana we need 700 midwives but we have only 78. We have to do better than this Mr. Speaker and we will,” the Public Health Minister stated.The Parliamentarian seemed particularly agitated by the fact that some opposition members have been promoting the continuation of the Specialty Hospital throughout the budget debates.He said some believe that this controversial project will be the “magic wand to solve all the problems of mothers and babies dying.”Dr. Norton said, “In the majority of cases, our infants die from sepsis (infection). This Specialty Hospital happens to be one of the ‘so called’ transformational projects of the past regime that had to be abandoned due to poor conceptualization in the first place, no consultation with the local medical fraternity and other stakeholders, while information about same seemed to be top secret to the PPPC regime.”He continued, “What was most shocking about this whole project was the tendering and award of contract for this project to Surendra Engineering Inc. About the track record and performance of this company I go no further only to say that one cannot help remembering that famous quote from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Act 1, scene 4 when Marcellus said ‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’. Well, something was rotten with the Specialty Hospital.”The Public Health Minister said that the politician of the day cannot simply sit on a TV programme spewing political propaganda and wishing that the ills of the health sector will be solved.“You have to be on the ground working on all four cylinders, while being able to respond in a decent, mannerly and appropriate manner befitting of your position when the public asks questions about this sad state of affair of the deaths of our mothers and babies.”The Public Health Minister said the task of fixing the broken system is not going to be easy and it never was but assured the Members of Parliament that for the APNU/ AFC Government,Cheap Jerseys Online, losing this battle is not an option. “We have to win it.”