Since the start of the year the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Anguilla has had to address several life-threatening medical conditions related to motor vehicle accidents, gunshot wounds and lacerations. This is according to a press release issued by the Health Authority of Anguilla.

Governor Huckle

The release states that, to date, as a result of the expeditious response and care provided to these patients by the hospital’s emergency response team, all are alive today and receiving further care at other tertiary care facilities.
The release continued: “It is well known within care treatment protocols that improvement in the life-saving condition of trauma victims is dependent on the level of care provided to them during the first hour of trauma.
“It is against this background that the surgical team at the Princess Alexandra Hospital has come in for high praises by members of the public and consultant surgeons at these overseas referral centres.
“The contents of the following letter, sent to the Director of Medical Services, Dr. Braimah Kassim, by His Excellency, Mr. Alan Huckle, provides evidence of the high quality of care provided by the surgical team at the hospital.

Dr. Braimah Kassim,
Director Medical
Services
Princess Alexandra
Hospital,
The Valley,
Anguilla.

Dear Dr. Kassim,
ANGUILLA:
SHOOTING INCIDENT MR & MRS. MILLER

I am writing to express my personal appreciation for the care and attention given to Mr. and Mrs. Miller by yourself and the medical and nursing staff in the Princess Alexandra Hospital when they were injured during an aborted burglary attempt in their rented villa on 10 January’06.

Dr. Kassim

I know that both Mr. and Mrs. Miller will owe their speedy recovery to your surgical skills and have learnt that the consultant surgeon in the hospital in Miami, to which they were both medically evacuated, was particularly impressed with the surgical precision of your work. You did well to stablise them so quickly.
Both Millers have told me that they were deeply grateful to you and your colleagues at the hospital, including the ambulance crew and nursing staff, for the care with which they were treated. They love Anguilla and this incident, which must have been deeply distressing to both of them, has only served to reinforce their feeling of affection for the island and its people rather than alienating them. The fact that they received such excellent care is a credit to you and the staff at the hospital.
Please accept my thanks and pass on my appreciation to the staff involved in looking after them. Well done!

Yours sincerely,
Alan Huckle

Governor, Anguilla
cc: Hon Evans Rogers, Minister of Social Development
Mr. Proctor, PS/Health.”
In responding to the letter received from His Excellency, Mr. Dexter James, Chief Executive Officer of the Health Authority of Anguilla, was high in praise for the work of the medical and nursing staff in a general sense. He especially commended the staff of the Emergency Medical Services, Accident and Emergency and Operating Theatre for their excellent response to the emergencies.

Mr. Dexter James

Mr. James indicated that in an effort to strengthen the healthy system’s response to trauma and other types of emergences, the Health Authority will be commissioning an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) which will provide expanded capacity to stabilize and resuscitate patients in a more efficient manner. The Authority invites corporate organizations in Anguilla to partner with it in this very important life-saving project.

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