Statement expected from the PNP women’s movement on “dead babies scandal”.

This is what I expect from the PNP women’s movement before the end of this week.

“The PNP women’s movement welcomes the statement of clarification and the apology by the Minister of Health, Dr Fenton Ferguson in relation to the characterization  dead babies  as ‘not babies in the real sense’.

The Statement that was attributed to the Minister of Health in parliament was rather unfortunate and is not characteristics of Dr Fenton Ferguson that we have come to know. We are hearten  by the fact that he has taken full responsibility for that unfortunate statement and has done the statesmanlike thing and tendered a public apology.

We would like at this stage to ask the nation, the opposition and the government to all work together to correct the problems in the health sector and resist the temptation to play political football with something as serious as healthcare.

We hope that collectively the nation can work together to ensure that there is no repeat of this series of unfortunate cases.

As women and in keeping with with the Prime Minister has already stated, we too would like to send our condolences to those grieving parents. We too are mothers and we understand their pain and grief and we will do everything in our power to ensure there is no repeat of this situation.

We would like all well thinking Jamaicans to join us in that regard”.

That above is the statement that I expect from the PNP women’s movement very shortly.