AN ECONOMIST has given the thumbs down to any privatisation of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) but has recommended the selling of the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation’s (CBC) Multi-Choice Television.
Retired University of the West Indies (UWI) senior lecturer, Professor Michael Howard, said the provision of health care as well as primary, secondary and tertiary education should be provided by the state in developing countries.
“The Queen Elizabeth Hospital should never be privatised as suggested by one medical doctor. The model there should be one of state ownership and contracting out of certain medical services,” he told the SUNDAY SUN.
Howard described the Multi-Choice commercial arm of CBC as a “private good” but noted that contrary to the many calls to sell off the entire corporation, there was an argument for Government provision of public information such as weather reports, news bulletins, health advisories and educational and cultural programmes.
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