Stylysh shocked at slackness in hospital - Entertainer plans to lobby for better health care after bad experience at Spanish Town Hospital

After coming face-to-face with death over the weekend and then experiencing the horror of Jamaica's public health system, entertainer Stylysh says she intends to engage Minister Christopher Tufton in some serious dialogue.

The entertainer met in a car accident on Sunday night in the vicinity of Old Harbour and was brought to the Spanish Town Hospital for treatment. However, appalled by the conditions and disheartened by the level of professionalism displayed by nurses at said hospital, Stylysh said she decided to seek medical assistance elsewhere.

She is now admitted at the University Hospital of the West Indies.

"I always heard people talking about Spanish Town Hospital, but a di first me an experience it. The people dem nah no bed and on top of that dem don't deal wid yuh good, it was really bad," she said.

Intense pain

Recalling the time spent at Spanish Town Hospital, Stylysh said she was feeling intense pain, so much that she "couldn't siddung up straight or anything and dem bring a wheelchair."

"When dem bring it, me tell dem say me can't siddung inna dat because I don't know what is happening inside of me and the way me feel, me affi lay dung flat. Dem help me inside and me lay dung pan a bench. When the pain was getting really overwhelming for me, me lay dung pan the grung in the hospital and a nurse ago say to me say if me nuh get up off the ground, nobody nah go assist me. The way dem behave, me affi tell me fren say we can't stay yah suh, and a so we end up a UC (University Hospital of the West Indies)."

Although still saddened by the way she was treated, the entertainer says she understands how frustrating staff must be to be working under conditions she saw.

"When yah work somewhere and your environment not comfortable, it can be really frustrating. We need to do better; the ministry needs to do better. The conditions weh me see over there nuh nice, and it make me affi ask if dem things here people weh a seek public healthcare affi go through," she said.

"I want to ask the minister if a through a people of lower socio-economic background go ova deh so why dem treat people like dat. Me really affi have a talk wid him."

Aside from wanting to speak with the Minister, Stylysh says as soon as she gets back on her feet, she will be seeking out ways she can actively assist the system.

"I would want to do a charity event and see if me can donate some beds over there. We never can tell where we will end up in emergency situations and so if me see where me can do something to help out a situation, I'm going to do my best."