Latest update April 7th, 2025 6:08 AM
Emergency training underway for nurses at GPHC
GPHC’s Director of Emergency Services, Dr Zulfikar Bux
The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) is working to create a team of efficient and effective emergency specialists equipped to save the lives of patients rushed to the Emergency Room (ER).
Emergency Medicine (EM) is a fast-paced, team-oriented specialty where you can have a tremendous impact on patients.
Emergency physicians are experts on diagnosing and managing the acute cases almost immediately.
However, emergency medicine is a very new specialty in Guyana. Before 2010, there was nothing such as an emergency specialist in Guyana.
GPHC’s Director of Emergency Services, Dr. Zulfikar Bux was the first medical practitioner trained in emergency medicine.
Dr. Bux recently spoke about the strides of GPHC, in this regard. He noted that efforts have been underway to expand the staff complement of emergency specialists working at the institution.
GPHC has increased its staff complement of those trained in emergency medicine.
Dr. Bux disclosed that at present, the emergency department of the GPHC has eight emergency specialists.
“If you converse with patients who have been coming here from 2010, they will tell you that the level of care they accessed here has improved and this is because we have trained specialists.”
Dr. Bux disclosed that the overall goal is to ensure that there are emergency specialists not only at GPHC, but each emergency department throughout the country, to improve the efficiency of patient care over time.
He emphasized further that since emergency medicine is not just about training doctors but creating a team to manage the patients that flood the department, nurses also undergo specialist training.
So for us to ensure this there must be a continuous training and team environment where while the doctor is doing something with the patient, the nurse anticipates the next move and the other nurse knows what she has to do, all in coherence to revive that patient.”
“We therefore embarked on a training programme for specialist emergency nurses.
The first group of specialist nurses will graduate later this year,” Dr. Bux disclosed.
He explained further that the training has reached beyond the scope of just doctors and nurses at the hospital.
“People unfortunately, come when they are dying here. We do not have the time like regular folks. Patients are dying and every second counts, so you have to be on top of your game. One mistake can cost a life,” he emphasised.
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