For it’s ever so often, the dailies would unwittingly cover the propaganda narratives, on PPP supposed health sector accomplishments. Where in these propaganda narratives, they would boast of a transformed health sector, from a position of archaic under APNU+AFC, to performing complex neurosurgeries under PPP.
Then in furtherance of this narrative, they would import foreign specialists, to undertake intricate pin-hole surgeries, which not by coincidence make their way into the media, as a GPHC first. However, while they promote their complex propaganda medicine, serving the sole purpose of whitewashing the catastrophic health sector failings, we the plebeian class are tragically dying from basic non-life-threatening ailments.
And one such plebeian, not meant to be disparaging, is firefighter Voshaun Manbodh, heroically injured while tackling a conflagration at the Mae’s School. Where, as reported in the media, Voshaun Manbodh sustained a fractured spine, in the region of the neck, when a fiery wall collapsed on his head. So, having sustained suspected spinal fractures, the presumption, as per Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) guidance, is that he has spinal cord injury.
Which means, with a presumed spinal cord injury, Voshaun Mandbodh, again as per ATLS guidance, should’ve been securely fitted, as a matter of urgency, with a hard neck collar and immobilisation head blocks. Moreover, once again as per ATLS guidance, transportation of Voshaun Manbodh, for MRI or any other intervention, should’ve been facilitated with a spinal board for full in-line immobilisation, even as he is log-rolled to protect his now vulnerable spinal cord.
However, such basic care described wasn’t afforded this heroic firefighter, leaving us nonplussed as to the standard of our health facilities, under this installed government. For it’s an established fact, Voshaun Manbodh wasn’t fitted with a basic hard collar and head blocks, to protect his vulnerable spinal cord from the bones of the spinal fractures.
Moreover, Voshaun Manbodh wasn’t transported on an immobilisation spinal board, nor was he log-rolled for this all-important MRI. Furthermore, in this the 21st century, physical restraint of agitated patients isn’t recommended, since guided by research evidence, they cause more harm than good. Yet, despite this basic medical fact, which any doctor managing trauma patients should know, we are to read that an agitated Voshaun Manbodh was physically restrained with pieces of string, rather than being medically sedated.
So, herein the irony, a health sector that boast of fanciful complex neurosurgical interventions, along with intricate pin-hole surgeries, failing at the very basics of spinal cord injury management, resulting in the catastrophic death of a healthy young man.
In fact, anyone reading these columns would be painfully familiar with its ad nauseam admonishment of the installed government, to have less of the propaganda complex, and more of the lifesaving basics. For the fact is, while PPP engages their complex propaganda medicine to delude the masses, we the plebeian class are dying from shortcomings in the basics. And it’s these basic shortcomings, tragically exposed in this Voshaun Manbodh catastrophe, that resulted in the untimely death of this young man in his prime.
Thus, pause we take, to chronicle the likely sequence of events, which led to the catastrophic and untimely death of Voshaun Manbodh. For it’s unquestionable, a fiery wall collapsed on his head, resulting in both traumatic brain injury and spinal fractures. And it was a consequence of this traumatic brain injury, that Voshaun Manbodh, not sedated, exhibited agitation and combative behaviour.
Moreover, as alluded to in the aforementioned, physical restraint would’ve led to an exacerbation of his agitation, rendering him more combative. Which means, with the spinal fractures not immobilised with collar, blocks and spinal board, in a very combative Voshaun Manbodh, resulted in shifting of the spinal fractures, compressing his spinal cord. Then with the fractured spine compressing his spinal cord, his diaphragm, the breathing muscle, became paralysed, resulting in Voshaun Manbodh’s untimely and tragic death.
