Demand for Chinese hospital ship ‘a concern’

Former minister of health Donville Inniss has described the long lines of Barbadians seeking medical attention from the visiting Chinese hospital ship as “embarrassing”, warning that the scenes point to what he cautiously termed a growing crisis in the public health care system.

“As we welcome the Chinese medical ship, we must not be distracted from the general deteriorating state of our public health care system in Barbados,” he said, adding that it was “truly painful to see hundreds of...