Almost three weeks have passed since Norval Belisle was killed in Belmopan.
And now an un-named family member has circulated a mail to all and sundry saying that the young man died because there was no ambulance to take him to the hospital.
The letter alleges that there is no ambulance at the Western Regional Hospital in Belmopan because the ambulance driver - who also has his own private ambulance service - sabotaged the public ambulance.
The Ministry of Health did investigate this claim - but could find no evidence that such sabotage occurred. But the Ministry's CEO Peter Allen did agree that it is a conflict of interest - and feels that the pubic ambulance driver should not have gotten permission from the Ministry of Health to operate his own ambulance service.
But he did get every license, permit and exemption required from the ministry - and now Allen says that when the license expires at the end of this month - he will have to choose to either give up his private ambulance service or quit his public ambulance job. But, after all that, Allen says that there was no ambulance for Norval Belisle because the Hospital's ambulance was out on another emergency.
Presently the Western Regional uses the San Ignacio hospital's ambulance.
The private ambulance service - Allen says - was not retained by the Western Regional Hospital. The Western Regional ambulance should be back in service by next week.
