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10 hospitals built, upgraded in 2012
……more services delivered in various locations- Health Minister
Health Minister Dr Bheri Ramsarran has lauded the Government for making major investments which he said sparked the improvement of health service dissemination, and saw the functioning of at least 10 hospitals
Minister of Health Bheri Ramsarran
during 2012.
Diamond, Leonora, Suddie, Mahaicony, Port Mourant, Linden, Mabaruma and Lethem, the Minister said, saw such improvements. “Over the past few years we have built or significantly repaired 10 new hospitals,” he told media operatives.
Within the past year and from the latter part of 2011, Minister Ramsarran asserted that major investments were made in the West Demerara Regional Hospital. With the functioning of those hospitals, Minister Ramsarran noted that the investment has positioned the Ministry, “To deliver more services, to more people in more places,” since these hospitals are being used as “the base for the projection of outreach activities.”
Since these improvements and the acquisition of certain equipment, specialty service providers, the Minister said, have been able to be more active in providing health care to areas once difficult to reach. More emphasis has been placed on major hospitals such as the West Demerara Hospital, Dr Ramsarran said. He added that the hospital has been “greatly improved and is functioning way above the standard it did in the early part of 2012.”
Several of the hospital departments, he said, that were not functioning as they ought, are now available and are under new leadership. At the same time, Dr Ramsarran said that the Diamond Hospital is “doing far better since the Ministry was able to attach on a scheduled basis, the doctors who work during the day at the health centres, are now working on call at the facility.”
The Georgetown Public Hospital accident and emergency department, Ramsarran noted, has indicated a reduction in the number of referrals coming from the East Bank hospital. This is because of the increase of the quality of in service provided.
Apart from these achievements, the Health Minister introduced his initiative to have health centres open beyond the regular eight to four working hours. This move he said is extremely important to provide additional health care which is very much needed in certain locations in the country.
Parika, which the government has slated for a township, is stiff on the agenda for new health facilities, he said. The Diamond Hospital, he said had been built with the same notion since the area is being developed as a major residential and commercial district.
Having explained his idea on the extension of health centre working hours, Dr Ramsarran said that the experiment for the New Year would see the facilities opening until late at nights. “This is revolutionary and this is what primary health care comprises of,” Ramsarran boasted.
The Minister also said that he has been sending out senior health officials from his office to make visits and to check the type of service that the hospitals have been providing. He said that they have also been accepting complaints and concerns from the public pertaining to accommodation and service.
This can now be done because of an increase in doctors and medical staff that can be deployed to offer some management changes.
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