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Business mogul lauds CHI’s evolution
– stresses importance of maintenance
Guyanese have a tendency of not caring things.
This view was recently amplified by business mogul, Mr. Yesu Persaud, as he spoke of a new Catherisation Laboratory installed at the Caribbean Heart Institute (CHI) situated at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
Business mogul,
Mr. Yesu Persaud
Regarding the $2.1 billion Cath Lab as “very precious” equipment, Persaud stressed the need for keen care and attention to ensure that it is maintained in the best possible way, until others of a greater size and more effective working are available.
“Equipment doesn’t last forever, but it depends on how you maintain it,” said Persaud as he made reference to caring for a car. “Many people have cars (but) if you abuse that car you know what will happen,” said Persaud as he noted that “equipment of this nature (Cath Lab) is very highly technical and if people play around with it then we will all be in problems. I don’t want to see any problems, I want to see progress,” asserted Persaud.
Even as he shared the successes of a number of business ventures he has been involved in, Persaud shared his optimism that the new CHI Cath Lab under the care of Consultant Cardiologist, Dr. Mahendra Carpen and his staff “will exceed beyond our wildest expectation if we take care of it.”
CHI has been in existence since 2006. It was founded by Cardiac Surgeon Dr. Gary Stephens who holds the portfolio of Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
Many patients have over the years been able to take advantage of the services offered at CHI, including Persaud, who has been a model businessman for a number of years.
“I have been around for some time, and yes, I have been at the Heart Institute on and off and had excellent service,” divulged Persaud.
Even as he considered the evolution of CHI, he highlighted the notion that the first step in a long journey of a thousand miles must start with one step. And according to him, “you can say this (the new Cath Lab) is the continuation of a bigger step forward, whereby Guyana now has one of the largest pieces of equipment in this area of cardiac care.”
“This is a great day for Guyana,” said Persaud of the commissioning of the new Cath Lab. He shared his conviction too that “a machine of this order you can’t get it every day,” even as he observed that a number of parties were involved in putting the package together.
CHI has been working closely with Professor Debra Isaacs, a Cardiology specialist at the LIBIN Cardiovascular Institute in Alberta, Canada, who has been offering tremendous support to the GPHC, and by extension, CHI.
CHI has also been working in collaboration with the Guyana Paediatric Cardiac programme (GPHC) which has been gaining support from the International Children’s Foundation (Baby Heart Foundation).
“I must say thanks very much to all of those who contributed to making this major investment possible; it is an investment in equipment that could change the lives of people,” Persaud asserted. It is his hope that not only adults will be able to benefit from the equipment at CHI, but young children who also suffer from cardiac conditions.
But according to Chief Executive Officer (ag) at GPHC, Mr Alan Johnson, not only will the Cath Lab serve to offer a more efficient service to local individuals, it will also serve people outside of Guyana.
“People will come from the Caribbean, they will come from Suriname and all over the place to Guyana…this will mean more revenue for us and we will get some of that money in the hospital too, and all of us will be better off,” Johnson concluded.
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