A Bahamas Court of Appeal judge is lying seriously ill in a Miami hospital is at the centre of an embarrassing financial wrangle over his treatment.
The health insurance provided by his contract with the government has now run out, according to well-placed sources, putting him in urgent need of specialist treatment in the UK, which would involve a $160,000 transfer by air ambulance from Miami to London.
The plight of Justice Maurica Churaman, a British national of Guyanese descent, was discussed by Cabinet last week.
It is understood that ministers and senior government officials are in a quandary over what to do next as Justice Churaman lies paralysed by a stroke in Jackson Memorial Hospital.
There has been a request for his family to have him returned to the Uk where he get the necessary medical attention.
However, government is in a bind as to whether or not it can legally do more than it already has.
Justice Churaman is about to exhaust the full measure of the government’s medical insurance which is now set at several hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Source: The Tribune
