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New equipment earmarked for GPHC, funding released

Feb 11, 2010 News

With a quantity of new equipment earmarked for the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), the delivery of health care is poised to be improved significantly even as services are enhanced.
And this development could become a reality before the end of this year with a $111M budgetary allocation.
Classified as critical, the hospital, according to the 2010 Budget Capital Project Profile, during the course of this year is slated to benefit from the procurement and installation of elevator and telephone cables at a cost of $40M. This is intended to improve the efficiency of the actual facility even as an allocation of $16M will facilitate the purchase of sterilisers, dietary equipment, photocopier, facsimile and sewing machines to further boost operation.
However, it is a whopping sum of $55M that will go towards the procurement of surgical instruments, ventilators, physiological monitors, equipment for enzyme assay, centrifuge, defibrillator and operating tables. Funding for the improvement of facility comes at a time when the hospital is gearing to expand the service it offers.
According to Director of Medical and Professional Services, Madan Rambaran, the GPHC is currently aiming to do more routine procedures in a better, more effective and more efficient way resulting in improved outcomes.
“We are looking to improve laparoscopic surgeries over the next year, as well as neurological surgeries…This is a lot of endoscopic/neurological surgeries. We have gotten new instruments to deal with bronchoscopy for the Ear, Nose and Throat service. These are things that we have been doing but we will hopefully be doing them better,” Dr Rambaran asserted. He added that there has been a significant development in the plastic and reconstructive surgery at the hospital. This, he said, comes as a result of local doctors being exposed to overseas training through linkages with several partners.
“We recently had a doctor go overseas to develop his skills in plastic and reconstructive surgery. And Dr Navindranauth Rambaran just came back from a one-month exposure in the emergency medicine department at the Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.”
According to the head doctor, the developments are all intended to strengthen what is already being done at the GPHC.
He noted that while the high-end operations such as cardiac operations and the various transplants are seen as impressive, the hospital has also been doing a lot of work that are also important.
Overall, the health sector has been allocated $13.3 billion this year, with $1.4 billion of that going towards the construction, rehabilitation and maintenance of health facilities nationwide. This also includes the new impatient facility at the GPHC, the rehabilitation of the West Demerara Regional Hospital and the expansion of the Skeldon Hospital.
An estimated $300 M is budgeted to be spent on enhancement of antenatal and child health programmes with specific focus on the prevention of maternal and infant mortality and on child nutrition. This year, $2.7 billion is slated to be spent to acquire drugs and medical supplies for the public health care system.

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