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City nursing school building will be used as a University- CMO
Days after nurses protested outside the Ministry of Health Brickdam, Georgetown Office, against being forced
CMO: Shamdeo Persaud
out of the city nursing school building, Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Shamdeo Persaud has announced that the building will be used as a university.
This, he said, is all in the interest of developing the health sector. The Georgetown Nursing School building, which is located in East Street, Georgetown, will at times be used to facilitate both doctors and nurses.
“There are two groups of nurses. One group comes in the morning and another comes in the afternoon and they share the space. For some of the courses, the nurses have to be placed at the hospital. Not everyone has to be seated in a classroom,” Persaud explained.
He added that the building is more like a classroom where you do your work and leave, and then another batch comes in and does the same.
According to the Chief Medical Officer (CMO), the facilities that are being developed by the health sector are shared facilities.
“Part of the building the nurses use, an addition, has been made to accommodate
The nurses during their protest.
some of the doctors,” The CMO said.
He added, “It is not a case where we are abandoning the nurses to the advantage of the doctors. The medical school needs space and if they are going to expand to provide more competent local training then they need additional space.”
The CMO explained that the Ministry has acquired a large building in Kingston where most of the nurses training activities will be conducted-they will still be able to use the East Street location.
“There are other people who are occupying that building so what we will have to do is move those persons to more suitable venues.”
He explained that the doctors’ classroom is inadequate.
The nurses are however still occupying the East Street building while the doctors are housed in a classroom in the upper flat of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)’s Mortuary.
On February 20, last, scores of nurses from the city nursing school mounted a protest in front of the building after they were forced out of the facility by contractors who had informed them that their school was given to the doctors.
Upset over this, the nurses demanded an immediate meeting with the Health Minister, Bheri Ramsaran but their request was turned down.
The student claimed that the facility has been a teaching institution for nurses since 1970 and handing it over to the doctors would be unfair.
The building was handed over to the GPHC and the University of Guyana during a meeting with the Heath Minister and representatives from both facilities.
The students say that they were only informed about the development when they were forced out of the building by contractors.
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