Public Health Sector gets new batch of Patient Care Assistants

Nov 30, 2019 News

Seventy-eight more individuals will gain employment in the Public Health Sector given their successful completion of a Patient Care Assistant, (PCA) programme sponsored by the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, (GPHC).

A section of the graduates at the ceremony

Chairman of the GPHC Board of Directors, Kesaundra Alves, said the programme is one which will help boost the capacity and output of the Public Health Sector.
According to Alves, the PCAs are expected to help provide basic patient care. PCAs are tasked with consistently tending to the needs of patients regularly. They are also responsible for helping patients with basic hygiene tasks.
This includes bathing and dressing patients, helping them use the toilet if needed and feeding them.
Alves congratulated the batch of graduates on their successful entry and completion of the programme.
“This is a very competitive programme; we get hundreds of applications each year but you were the chosen ones; you got in.”
“I hope that these smiling faces I see here today continue to be smiling faces once they gain employment.
“You have done us proud and I hope you continue to do us proud. You must not forget your goal in the public health system is to serve the people.
“You must therefore ensure that you work diligently to help provide good health- care for all our citizens, migrants and those seeking the service.”
“You are not going to be serving only our hospitals but you will be serving our communities and the nation.
“Because we could have the best mechanisms, the best hospitals, the best diagnostics, the best health insurances but if we don’t have health workers to deliver safe, effective healthcare these would all be in vain.”
Alves urged further that the health providers serve the patients as their families and provide equal health care regardless of ethnicity and other values.
GPHC has undertaken to help train a batch of PCAs annually.
Last year, 58 persons graduated from the PCA Programme under GPHC.
They were later dispersed to work at facilities across the nation.