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Suriname nationals are welcome to access healthcare in Skeldon- Mahadeo

Apr 27, 2013 News

 

 

…Guyanese should not be turned away in Nickerie

As Guyana and Suriname try to deepen ties, linking their two health sectors, many Surinamese and Guyanese are accessing health services in each country. This was revealed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Berbice Regional Health Authority (BRHA), Dr. Vishwa Mahadeo, during the Guyana-Suriname simultaneous launch of Vaccination Week of the Americas 2013 at the border town of Corriverton on Monday.
Mahadeo and Surinamese Member of Parliament, Dr. Premdew Latchman, issued a joint call on the healthcare practitioners (nurses and doctors) in both countries to not turn away Surinamese or Guyanese who turn up for healthcare services in Corriverton or Nickerie.
A 15-minute trip across the Corentyne River using the ‘backtrack’ route would easily take a Guyanese or Surinamese into each other’s country.
Mahadeo said that many Surinamese access healthcare services at Skeldon Health Centre and Skeldon Hospital. They are easily recognized by their accents.
Every single day “the Surinamese come here to see the doctor and visit health centres. From the accent, you know they are not Guyanese,” he added.
Mahadeo added that the Surinamese would most often tell the doctors and nurses that they live in Corriverton and other parts of the Corentyne, for fear that if they say that they are foreigners, they would be barred from accessing health care services in Guyana. He said this notion must stop.
“If they [Surinamese] are over here, they should be able to access healthcare and what we have to offer and when our Guyanese go there, [Suriname] they should be able to access care, freely and feel proud that I am Guyanese or I am a Surinamese, as the case might be”.
Meanwhile, as Guyana and the rest of the world continue to celebrate Vaccination Week 2013, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) representative for vaccination in Guyana, Ms. Jennifer Sanwigo, of Washington, has stated that vaccination levels in Guyana and other countries must be maintained at high levels to continue to prevent the morbidity and mortality rates.
She was speaking at the Guyana-Suriname simultaneous launch of Vaccination Week of the Americas (VWA) in Corriverton recently.
Ms. Sanwigo noted that vaccination coverage needs to be maintained in high levels in all places, and not just in big cities but also in rural areas, tiny villages. “It is our duty to find children”, she noted.  VWA, she added, offers an opportunity to “reach the unreached”.
Vaccination at a universal scale has ensured the total eradication of small- pox, measles and polio, “achievements which were made possible by Ministries of Health, National Immunization Programmes, countless healthcare workers, families and communities”. Because of this, she stated, “our children can be protected from diseases that their parents once feared”.
Sanwigo said that Vaccination Week is celebrated in over 180 countries. “Countries have campaigns to reach more than 44 million people around the world.”

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