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Oct 15, 2013 News
A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Ministry of Health and the not-for-profit Doobay Renal Centre is expected to see renal patients being able to benefit from sustained treatment at a reduced cost. In fact, this strategic move is expected to even fast track the offering of free kidney transplants to patients currently on dialysis.
The MOU is slated to be inked this morning in the Office of the Health Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Mr Leslie Cadogan.
This disclosure was made by Executive Member attached to the
Renal Centre, Vic Oditt, who disclosed that the signing of the agreement comes as part of efforts to have formal measures put in place to aid plans to extend the operation of the Renal Centre facility. Already, he said that Founder of the Centre, Dr Budhendra Doobay has been able to get assurance from surgeons and nephrologists from the McMaster University and the St Joseph Health Care facility in Hamilton Ontario, Canada, to facilitate transplants here.
Since last year officials of the Annandale, East Coast Demerara, Renal Centre were streamlining plans for the offering of free kidney transplants which they had envisioned would have started early this year at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
As part of its collaboration with the GPHC, the Renal Centre had facilitated the donation of a renal treatment centre to the public hospital and even ensured that nurses were trained to operate there. And according to Oditt, “we are prepared to work with any institution for the betterment of health care in Guyana.”
Oditt said too that while all efforts are being made to collaborate exclusively with the GPHC, there are possible futuristic plans to offer transplants at the East Coast Demerara location.
He noted that efforts are being streamlined to construct a three storey structure offering a range of services, two operating rooms, an angio-suite for heart patients, X-ray service and pharmacy. In essence, he said that “we will be bringing medicine to the East Coast of Demerara.”
And according to Oditt, “we can assure you that all precautions will be taken post and during the transplants to safeguard the health of the patient and the donor because we want to run an operation that we want to be proud of.”
Of course all of this will only be possible if the completed facility satisfies all the necessary requirements and is granted a licence to operate by the Government, noted Oditt who said though “at the moment we are only thinking as far as working with GPHC.”
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