The Robinsons'-Kingston Public Hospitals' First Family
And here I thought the only roach motel we had in the area was actually Chelsea Hotel…oh no I’m sorry I’m mistaking the Haitian/Cuban refugees hiding out there by the outside pool halls for roaches…my bad! They just seem to be always there!
The authentic roach motel currently being talked is actually the infamous Kingston Public Hospital. The enormous influxes of roaches there are deemed to have supernatural resiliency. Maybe, even the roaches fear the escalating crime rate and have taken to relocating?
Local teenage roaches have taken up residency outside and within the compound of the hospital. No area of the hospital has been left off the list as feasible shelter; reportedly, even the bottom of patients’ cups and bed pans are a homely place for the multi legged Kingstonians, and with all the modern methods of pest fumigation, non have worked, so no possible eviction to their residency is anticipated.
Noting the obvious mystical forces that drive the roach plague, Operations Manager of the hospital, David Dobson, flatly states that he can’t promise the total removal of the roaches anytime soon but hopes the current methods will take it to a reasonable level- if there is ever such a thing as a ‘reasonable’ roach level at a hospital.
Various numbers of traditionalist, elderly staff member speculate that the roach armada is actually the spirits of the deceased patients who died at the facility due to inept medical procedures, coming back in full devastating force and numbers to pay revenge on the deplorable facility in order to see it shut down.
Shifting blame of course is a trusted and true Jamaican management tactic, and in such a fashion to defend the management structure, while shooting himself in the foot, Mr. Dobson says the problem can also arise from the multiple vendors of food and the sewage in close proximity.
Shifting back the blame in the face of the management, with trusted health knowledge, Chief Public Health Inspector, Everton Baker said that is impossible and ridiculous that the vendors could ever be blamed as the source of the problem as roaches need food and water to survive; non of which both is plausible of being sold around the raw sewage also in close proximity….or could it?
Jim Screechy
