MANCHESTER, Jamaica — Pointing out that Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton got a hospital bed immediately after he injured his wrist in a bicycle accident on Sunday, People’s National Party (PNP) representative for St James Southern Nekeisha Burchell hit out at what she argued was a double standard in the health care system.

According to Burchell, many Jamaicans are placed in chairs for days at hospitals.

“Unuh realise seh the Minister of Health fell off a bicycle and broke his wrist and two twos him deh inna comfortable bed a hospital. How many of you have relatives who’ve had to sit on hospital chair for days with serious conditions?” she asked PNP supporters at the party’s Knockpatrick divisional conference at May Day High on Sunday.

“The health Minister bypass the chair. Them carry him go lay down inna hospital bed and people still sit down out a door pon chair a dead,” added Burchell.

Tufton was reportedly riding his bicycle on Charlemont Avenue in St Andrew when he was hit by a motor vehicle.

In a post to social media, the minister expressed gratitude to God and well-wishers who reached out after news of his accident broke.

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He also shared a photo of himself in a hospital bed, with a bandage to his forehead, shaking hands with dancehall artiste Valiant, who he confirmed was involved in the incident.

– Kasey Williams