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Solomon calls for Health Authority Region Ten

Apr 07, 2014 News

 

Chairman of Region 10 Sharma Solomon is advocating that a Regional Health Authority be established in Region Ten.
Solomon said that the Regional Health Officer could be held directly accountable by the Region for health care delivery, at the level of the health centres, as even though the hospitals are run by the Ministry of Health, people within the Region still look to the Regional Democratic Council for representation for proper health care delivery.
“I don’t know why, to date, Region 10 has not been given consideration for a Regional Health Authority. People have their own concerns about it, but I think the fact that the first assessment was done in Region 10, and was to be piloted, and was piloted in Region six, I think Region Ten should have a Regional Health Authority that brings healthcare delivery under one umbrella; rather than we have rural or parallel health care system…with a Regional Health Officer and then a board running the Hospital, through a CEO of the Ministry of Health.
“Who is accountable to the Region now, when you don’t have these type of things- whether it’s an ambulance or drugs? I think that should be the focus of this council…”
Those comments were made after the issue of the shortage of drugs at the Linden Hospital Complex was again raised at the recent statutory meeting held in the RDC boardroom.
According to reports reaching the meeting, out of the 360 drugs ordered, 320 were supplied, leaving a shortfall of forty. The forty, a senior health official had asserted are not ‘emergency drugs’.
But the Regional Chairman and several councilors were adamant that the situation was far from satisfactory.
Councillor Leslie Gonsalves declared, “If you have a State of the Art Hospital, and they have the ultrasound machine and it can only give you reading, we have a problem there; and then they don’t have the drugs required to treat you, why are they sending you to the Pharmacies, if these drugs are not emergency drugs?”
Gonsalves also alluded to a statement allegedly made by the Ministry about there are not enough people ‘getting sick’ within the Region to   warrant the issuing of mosquito nets
Persons meanwhile continue to cry out about the unavailability of some drugs that they consider crucial to their health issues.
Some are also peeved that most of the drugs that are not available at the Hospital are the expensive ones.
“The thing is if you get a prescription for five drugs, they only got three, and is always the most expensive ones that they don’t have; something has to be done about this”, one woman said.
Meanwhile, last Thursday, a quantity of medications and other medical supplies was presented to Regional Health Officer Dr. Pansy Armstrong, for distribution to Health Centres in and around Region 10.
The donation which was made by a team of Overseas based Linden doctors was distributed by executives of the youth group, “Experiment to Discover Hope”.
President of the group Natallia Jordan said that the presentation was one of the ways that the group has identified to give back to the community, which is part of their mandate.
(Enid Joaquin)

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