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Guyana says good-bye to PAHO Country Representative
By Romila Boodram
Although she is due for retirement, Pan America Health Organization (PAHO)’s Country Representative, Dr. Beverly Barnett said that if she is given a chance to serve Guyana once more, she will do it all over again.
Dr. Barnett made this comment last Wednesday at the Sleep-in Hotel on Brickdam during a reception ceremony which was held by the Ministry of Health (MOH) to bi=d her “Good bye.”
Health Minister, Bheri Ramsaran and Dr. Barnett on Wednesday during the reception ceremony.
“It has been very interesting working here; Guyana is a fascinating country. I have enjoyed being here and I think that PAHO working with the Ministry of Health has made some differences. It has made people more aware of certain things as it relates to their health,” the PAHO’s representative told the gathering.
Dr. Barnett who has been in Guyana since 2010 said that she was here to work with the MOH and the government to achieve the country’s National Health objectives.
“The other PAHO representative who would succeed me will simply need to continue working with the MOH, NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations) and other Ministries to make sure that everybody is working towards the objectives to be established and implemented in the national health plan,” Dr. Barnett encouraged her successor.
Dr. Barnett said, “This was supposed to be a surprise but nobody could have figured out a way to get me here as a surprise so in the end people had to send an invitation to ‘Please come to your surprise party.”
Minister of Health, Bheri Ramsaran thanked Dr. Barnett for the work she has done during her time here.
“PAHO has been headed in Guyana by strong resourceful women and Dr. Barnett, I hope, is not the last, but the correct one in the long list of individuals. What is interesting is that there is a coincidence of good things this time around,” the Minister stressed.
At the end of the ceremony, the Minister on behalf of the Health Ministry presented the PAHO representative with a little token to remember Guyana.
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