Guyana Watch ends clinic at Belle West Primary School

Aug 19, 2013 News

– team saw 1,995 patients

The Guyana Watch Medical team completed its last clinic on Saturday at the Belle West Primary School. The team saw a total of 1,995 patients in less than a week.

Dr. Reddy doing an extraction

The visiting medical team had six doctors, Mavis Agyeiwaah, Jessica Rosenberg, Maritza Jerome, Stephanie Ortiz, Allison Altherly-Ward and Nadav Mor; one Registered nurse, Sara Machlis, two dentists, Dr. Apurva Dave and Dr. Chiran Reddy and one pharmacist, S.P Mehta along with their support staff.
Even though the team has been in the field for one week, the members were no less energetic and involved in their work on Saturday than they were on their first day here.
At the Belle West Primary, the doctors saw 201 patients, 48 of which were children, while 54 persons visited the dental clinic.
According to the doctors, most of the patients seem to be suffering from the same illness. “Many of them coming with high blood pressure, high blood sugar and rashes, they seem to be suffering from common illness here.”
Dr. Mor said that the patients he had seen over the past few days were very grateful. “The people here are very grateful and I think that they should go and see a doctor every now and then. I feel a lot of people here are straining with the cost for medication and they are neglecting themselves because of that.”
He explained that he saw many persons who required X-rays, blood-sugar and cholesterol tests, but because of the cost, they don’t take them
A large number of patients also have dental problems. The majority of these are children, mostly because of their consumption of sugar.
For the six clinics countrywide, there were a total of 434 dental visits.

Dr. Mavis Agyeiwaah with one of her patient

After Saturday’s clinic, the team packed up and were all treated to a farewell dinner at the New Thriving Restaurant. The doctors and their volunteers departed early yesterday.
Meanwhile, President of the Guyana Watch Medical team, Mr. Tony Yassin, thanked the following persons who have assisted in making the Guyana Watch possible.
They are The New Thriving Restaurant, Princess Hotel and Casino, Buddy’s Restaurant and Pool’s Hall, Anand C Persaud Dental Technician, Lloyd Singh- International Pharmaceutical Agency, Twahir Khan- Discount Store, Kaieteur News, Guyana Forestry Commission, Rampersaud Sookdeo, M&M Snackette, Ram Kishun, Ganesh Balkissoon and Mukesh from Timehri.
He also thanked the Ministry of Education for providing the various schools across the country for this team to offer their services and the Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Shamdeo Persaud.
“I would like to thank the new batch of doctors and their overseas support staff for their time and hard work and for the wonderful service they have offered to the people of Guyana. I would also like to thank the local volunteers at the various schools who also played a part.”