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Health sector to be boosted with 69 doctors – Dr Ramsaran

Jul 11, 2009 News

The human resource capacity of the public health sector will be significantly boosted in the very near future with the addition of 69 new doctors.
According to Minister within the Health Ministry, Dr Bheri Ramsaran, by next week 69 final year Guyanese medical students who are completing rotations here and are accredited by the University in Havana, Cuba, will graduate.
And their graduation, the Minister noted, will see a large infusion into the health system, even as he noted that the graduates will also have the opportunity to benefit from post-graduate training in areas that have been defined as being necessary.
Among these areas, Dr Ramsaran highlighted emergency obstetric care which is intended to aid the Ministry’s plan to reduce maternal death.
“We have already started to plan the lives of the 69 doctors. They are the property of the people of Guyana; they have contractual obligations so after they would have graduated (July 15) they will have a little holiday for about a month, after which their deployment will start,” Minister Ramsaran disclosed.
And the deployment, he noted, will not only be to the Georgetown Public Hospital or to the coast, but also to the difficult areas and vulnerable communities where there is need for safe motherhood practices.
He said that based on a review of certain situations in some birthing centres, it was revealed that there was need to address some deficiencies which according to him are being adequately remedied with support from United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) through its Maternal Health Thematic Fund.
UNFPA and the Ministry have been collaborating to address the public health problem of maternal and infant mortality and on Thursday signed an agreement which will see the Ministry reaping further benefits in this regard.
“We did certain personnel rearrangements and we decided that we needed serious, focus, quality training. I am happy to see that on this occasion there is a strong component of training for human resource development.
“We could have the best hospitals, equip them in the best fashion, but if we do not have personnel trained in up-to-date contemporary methods we will not be delivering the services and not be delivering safe motherhood.”
Dr Ramsaran added that in keeping with the Ministry of Health’s goal to achieve safe motherhood, two of the country’s diagnostic centres, Suddie and Mahaicony, have been provided with two operating theatres respectively.
And according to the Minister, a single theatre at both facilities will be dedicated solely to safe motherhood. He noted that the other theatre will be for general purposes.
The efforts of the Ministry, he said, come as part of Government’s commitment, pointing out that the efforts are not only directed to fully equipping the facilities, but also to continue training of the ‘brain power’.
According to him the Ministry will continue to train its personnel, adding that there has and will continue to be a significant increase of the amount of doctors and nurses being trained, as the improvement of the health sector moves apace.

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