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GPHC to introduce family practitioner programme shortly

Jan 16, 2010 News

As part of its effort to improve the services offered by the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), a Post Graduate Family Health Medicine programme will be introduced this year.
According to Director of Regional Health Services, Dr Narine Singh, it is expected that the programme, which is now being streamlined, will be launched by September. The proposed new introduction to the health sector is being channelled through the University of Guyana but will get support from the Canadian Association of General Surgeons, Dr Singh said.
At the moment, efforts are being made to have the programme accredited and the curriculum outlined, he said.
And even as the related logistics are being finalised, the Director disclosed his optimism that training of the first batch of doctors could commence before the end of this year.
The Family Practitioner programme is very essential, Dr Singh noted, as 90 percent of the services offered by the public health sector are carried out by family practitioners.
“With family practitioners in place it will help us to reduce the burden we currently face in the sector,” Dr Singh asserted.
“We can’t train a surgeon for every region and for every hospital,” Dr Singh disclosed that additional training programmes are also in place. In addition to the training of several doctors through the Guyana/Cuba collaboration, he revealed that another batch of doctors has commenced training for the Post Graduate Diploma in General Surgery at the GPHC.
The inaugural batch that had undertaken that programme had completed and graduated in November 2008.
The batch which consisted of five doctors, Shawn Legall, Carlos Martin, Shilindra Rajcumar, Navindranauth Rambaran and Allan Tinnie were all in attendance to receive honorary recognition and to recite the Hippocratic Oath when the University of Guyana held its 42nd convocation.
For 18 months, the five were engaged in the programme which was offered through the Health Sciences Faculty of the University of Guyana. Courses were however carried out primarily at the GPHC with the assistance of Canadian surgeons who worked closely throughout the programme with the doctors while in training.
For this reason, every three months as the programme progressed, a Canadian surgeon was tasked with visiting Guyana for a two or three-week period to facilitate seminars and tutorials and to spearhead surgeries for the benefit of the then aspiring surgeons.  Among the visiting doctors was Dr Brian Cameron.
Dr Cameron had said that in addition to the efforts of the Canadian surgeons, the Guyanese Faculty had responsibility to supervise the clinical training of the doctors in training and also offered some tutorials.
Having graduated, the doctors have since been dispatched to various regional health facilities.
According to Dr Cameron, the doctors had proven themselves to be an outstanding group even as he voiced his optimism that they could stand beside any of the residents in Canada, since they are bright and very hard-working.
He noted that the Guyanese populace should consider itself fortunate for having such personnel to care for them.
Chief Executive Officer of the GPHC, Mr Michael Khan, had revealed that the inclusion of the doctors as surgeons comes as part of the intensified capacity building strategy of the Public Health Sector.
He said that with the posting of the surgeons to various regional hospitals there is the expectation that many cases will not be referred to the GPHC since they will be equipped with necessary skills to perform optimally.

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