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Hon. Godwin Hulse, Minister of Labour
"I was a little disturbed at the massive coverage that the rat in the incubator had. Because really rats and bats are everywhere and yes it should not be there, it should have never been in the incubator etc. it's very unfortunate. Thank God nothing happened to the child but that we covered it to the extent that it got all this international coverage doesn't speak well for our country and I think sometimes we have to be sensitive on how we cover things. The nurses, we can't put that on everybody's shoulder. Rats are creative little creatures I think they've been around from the dinosaur days just like roaches you can't get rid of them and houseflies, it doesn't matter what you do, and you can only do your best. It's unfortunate but I don't know that it deserves such a significant media coverage as to have internationalized as to the point where I see it in British news and even in some of the other European news. That is unfortunate, Latin American news as well, that I unfortunate because it focuses the country as we as careless, we are worthless, we are nasty, which is not the truth. And we have not herald the great work that a lot of these nurses and doctors do in these hospitals and the amount of lives they save especially in some serious accidents. I personally have had the experience of those doctors and nurses who have gone beyond the call of duty to help save the lives of some of my family members when they've been there and we have to herald that as well. We don't want to downplay it with a rat that we happen to find in an incubator and while that is very unfortunate and should not have happened really, I think we need to look at it from a different angle. The hospital and management are doing everything they can to try to prevent that in the future."