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Aranaputa residents in urgent need of an Ambulance

Jun 18, 2013 News

 

 

… Pregnant women travel to clinic on motorbikes – Toshao

Pregnant women, just a few minutes away from delivering, are being transported to the Aranaputa, North Rupununi, Health Clinic on motorbikes, the village’s Toshao, Mark George, said on Saturday
He explained that the villagers, for the past several years, have been requesting an ambulance or any other vehicle from the Ministry of Health to transport sick persons and pregnant women to the clinic but to no avail.
“For ages, we have been begging the health people (Ministry of Health) for an ambulance to take the people to the hospital but nobody listens to us. Imagine you are pregnant and have to sit at the back of a motorbike on a bumpy journey to the clinic,” the Toshao emphasized.
According to George, “Once we get an ambulance things will be much easier for the villagers.”
Apart from not having any transportation for the sick, the Toshao said there is an urgent need for medical personnel in the village. The Aranaputa Health Clinic, the only health facility in the village is being managed by one doctor and a midwife.
George explained that on many occasions, there would be a long line at the clinic, all because there is only one doctor.
“We don’t have a medic here. The doctor here has to treat the entire village and there is only one midwife who sometimes, if there is a delivery, we have to take motorbikes and go search for her because she alone doing all the delivery here,” he noted.
He said that the clinic does not experience any shortages of drugs neither does it have a large quantity of expired drugs.
Yesterday, Minister of Health, Bheri Ramsaran could not be reached for a comment.

 

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