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Bartica health sector needs urgent improvement and modifications

Jul 28, 2013 Letters

 
DEAR EDITOR,
There are a number of issues affecting the medical sector in Bartica that need to be urgently addressed.
Among the issues are the need of an ambulance to provide better emergency attendance to the community.  Mr. Editor I was advised by some medical workers of the Bartica Hospital that when they depart from the hospital  by boat with an emergency  patent, when the boat arrives at the Parika stelling, sometimes they have to wait  for hours before an ambulance comes to transfer the patent to the Georgetown hospital.
The hospital also needs to be provided with more drugs since a lot of residents stated that they have to buy the treatments at private pharmacies, since sometimes the hospital doesn’t have the medication.
The hospital needs to be re-built and transform into a state of the art institution with more medical staff. Over the years a number of persons were taken there with critical injuries, but were then take the rough speedboat journey to Parika and then transferred to the Georgetown Hospital because of the lack of facilities at Bartica.
A number of mothers said that they joined the Bartica Hospital clinic but would head for private hospitals in Georgetown for delivery because of the poor quality of.
I am calling on the leaders of this region to make the necessaryrecommendations to the Ministry of Health to immediately put systems in place to have this matter corrected.
Micah Williams

 

 

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