Dear Editor,

This letter is about a gift of life given to my family by the doctors (private and government), nurses at the Rand ICU and the remarkable EMS in Freeport.

Over the years, people have been heard to say: "don't get sick in Freeport;" "medical care in Freeport is non-existent."  For the most part, this is from foreigners, ex-pats and, yes, sometimes Bahamians.

My mother came to Grand Bahama Island several weeks ago to spend the holidays with her family. We were so pleased that this healthy 93 year old woman would fly here from New York City to spend this time with her family who live here: her son, daughter, grandsons, and great granddaughters.

On Monday, December 5th, she had chest pains and her jaw hurt. We found out later that this is symptomatic of a heart attack in women. Mother asked me to take her to the Rand. Because we know how busy the ER is, we went to see Kevin Bethel, MD (right across the street from hospital) to have the symptoms assessed.

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