Latest update April 7th, 2025 6:08 AM
Specialist here to help Guyana to further advance emergency medical care
With more than 40 years of experience, Emergency Medical Specialist, Dr. Kenneth Iserson, is in Guyana to lend a helping hand to further improve the level of Emergency Medical Care offered here.
Emergency Medical Specialist, Dr. Kenneth Iserson
He is currently lending his expert support at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
Dr. Iserso, who graced this week’s edition of Your Health Matters on Kaieteur Radio (99.1, 99.5 FM), said “I was involved in emergency medicine, really even before I became a physician. I was driving an ambulance, a volunteer ambulance, way back before it was cool for young people to do that.”
“In fact, I was one of the first EMT instructors in the world. That was before paramedics,” he revealed as he shared his years of experience.
He went on to explain that during his years at medical school, he thought about specialising in many fields since everything interested him. However, he realised that he wanted to have a long career and he has been in emergency medicine since 1976.
Recently, he did a bit of International Medicine. He has worked on all seven continents. He was also the lead physician for a year and a half at the United States, Antarctic Programme in the South Pole.
He said that the emergency care seen here in Guyana is not as uniform as what he sees back home. However, he has seen improvements and is working to make it even better. He lauded the efforts that have already been implemented by GPHC’s Head of Emergency, Dr. Zulfikar Bux, also a trained emergency specialist, and others trained in this field of medicine as well.
“My primary function there (GPHC) is to add some finishing touches to the knowledge that the residents and students have in emergency medicine. You can read the book but if you have someone who can guide you through some of the things, someone who has been there, that helps,” he said.
He has been involved in disaster and global emergency medicine. According to Dr. Iserson, “an ideal Emergency Department should entail good, well-trained nurses, physicians, specialists in emergency medicine, administrative staff, social workers vested in emergency medicine, security personnel because of the nature of what goes on.”
“Lab technicians who can do very quick turnarounds, x-ray techs and pharmacists specially trained in emergency medicine and can handle complex prescriptions at a moment’s notice, since you want to keep persons on whatever they came in using,” he noted.
He said that he willing to serve and help, and is optimistic that improvements will be the outcome of his support to Guyana’s Emergency Medical Care.
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