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US based “Nurse Wendy” from Discovery Life in Medical Outreach
Nurse Wendy, who hails from Plantation Ross, and who also attended school in Matthews Ridge, North West District, Region One, migrated to the United States of America in 1981. She now boasts of over ten years’
Mrs. Wendy Lamb-Paul who played “Nurse Wendy” in the TV series Untold Stories in ER, on Discovery Life Channel, in the USA, over the weekend conducted her annual medical outreach programmer at Plantation Ross, West Coast Berbice.
experience as a Registered Nurse in New York. She is attached to the Downstate Medical Centre in New York.
In 2010, Nurse Wendy launched her privately-funded medical outreach programme treating residents of Plantation Ross, West Coast Berbice, and the neighbouring villages. There is blood pressure check together with screening for cholesterol and high blood sugar. The crowd keeps growing each year. Children are also presented with basic school supplies as well.
Nurse Wendy stated that since she joined the profession she would have encountered many cases where people have died suddenly or prematurely, because of lack of knowledge; not knowing what their numbers are, blood pressure, cholesterol and sugar level. That would have been one of the factors that motivated her to launch the initiative which she has embarked upon.
She is of the view that while it is good to work with the older folks to bring relief in many cases, she is particularly interested in treating with the children whereby educating them so that they may be able to make the right decisions which can help them to minimize the chances of them developing certain medical conditions later on in life.
According to “Nurse Wendy,” she won a spot on the TV show because of her outreach programme in Guyana. And while she enjoys what she has been doing so far, she would be even happier if she could source additional funding which could see the programme grow thereby touching the lives of many more people.
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