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Doobay Renal Centre gets $1 million
– expected to help take renal service to other areas
Although the Doobay Renal Centre is not yet ready to include kidney transplants in its list of services offered to the public, it certainly offers a near impeccable dialysis service.
Visiting Nephrologist, Dr. Alistair Ingram, from the McMaster University in Canada, described the service as “excellent”.
“Certainly the vascular aspect and the technical performance of the
Rajin Balgobin (second from left) hands over the $1M cheque to the Doobay Renal Centre Directors.
dialysis service need no improvement.”
However, he noted that the frequency of dialysis could be improved. At the moment 48 renal failure patients access the service of the Dialysis Centre; but unfortunately some are not able to do so for the ideal three times per week.
Dr. Ingram, during a media briefing yesterday, said that some patients are perhaps limited by their ability to travel to the East Coast Demerara facility more often even.
“While no one is turned away based on the ability to pay…we have people driving for several hours to get here and when you ask them to do that three times a week, while they are also taking care of children and have jobs, that could become very difficult.”
He speculated that it was for this reason that Founder and President of the facility Dr. Bhudeshwar Doobay has been considering taking the service to other parts of the country. “He is twisting people’s arms to do that now, but right now we are limited by geography and people’s ability to come. So I would say that is a bit of a shortcoming but certainly they are doing the best that they can to accommodate people,” assured Dr. Ingram.
This is Dr. Ingram’s third visit to Guyana to oversee the operation and to attend to renal failure patients at the Renal Centre, as part of efforts to support the medical work of the not-for-profit organisation. His visit, and that of other specialists from both the McMaster’s and Humber River Regional Hospital Universities in Toronto, Canada, represents a robust partnership aimed at offering technical and other dialysis support here.
However, the expansion of the dialysis service to other areas may be on the horizon as funding is continually forthcoming to support this cause, even as the moves are being made to expand the East Coast Demerara infrastructure.
Yesterday the Directors of the facility were in receipt of a cheque for $1 million which was presented by Pandit Rajin Balgobind of the Hindu Society of Berbice and the Sri Krishna Mandir of New Amsterdam.
Pandit Balgobin noted that the religious body is prepared to support any laudable cause such as the Doobay Renal Centre. He said that he felt the need to spearhead a fundraiser after being offered a tour of the Renal Centre complex.
It was at this point, he disclosed, that he learnt from Dr. Doobay that most of the funds to sustain the operations were realised through fundraisers by the Vishnu Mandir of Toronto, Canada.
“I asked myself the question why should the Vishnu Mandir alone bear the responsibility of covering the additional expenses of the Doobay Renal Clinic…I think all religious organisations could contribute to facilities like these that come to the aid of our people to provide a much necessary service,” asserted Balgobin.
An 11-day event was streamlined in Crabwood Creek during which an Arti Collection (financial contribution) was picked up which amounted to the total donated yesterday. And it is the expectation of Pandit Balgobind that the finances would help to take the work of the Renal Centre to other parts of the country.
“It is my fervent hope that one such facility will be established in Berbice for the Berbicians.”
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