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May 17, 2014 News
For the first time, a batch of fourteen young doctors is undergoing intense training in the field of Emergency Medicine that can significantly benefit the local health sector. Dr. John Paul Rodee, Medical Director of the Adult Emergency Department of Vanderbilt Medical Centre and Coordinator of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)/University of Guyana (UG) for Emergency Medicine Residency programme noted that the programme “will change emergency care in ways that only trained emergency specialists can. Over the next five to 10 years, the fruit of the long- term investment will be seen.”
The doctors currently in training do not have to pay for their tuition but are being remunerated for the work done as they take care of patients in the various hospitals.
Graduate Medical Education, Dr. Rodee noted, is a long-term investment, and require three years of residency training to generate one single graduate.
Guyanese Dr. Zulfikar Bux, Head of the GPHC Emergency Department, Emergency Specialist, who was the first to have graduated from the programme, noted “So we are now only beginning to start to see the improvements in systems that worked this sort of long-term investment.”
”I think the health sector in Guyana is poised to see really dramatic improvements and dramatic advances in the near future,” he added.
Dr. Bux stated that in due time all the hospitals in Guyana can be staffed with emergency specialist doctors, “so emergency care can be at a higher standard.”
Bux noted that it is important for the public to understand that the health care system in Guyana is not first-world. “The plan is to improve it gradually; we are doing our best -each and every staff…most of them work their best. There are always going to be bottlenecks in the system and staff that actually are delinquent but I ask the public to work together to improve the system.”
Dr. Bux noted too that training doctors better “will enable them to deliver care in a more efficient manner.”
Other upgrading programmes for doctors in Guyana are running concurrently, in areas such as Intensive Care, Obstetrics, Surgery and Gynecology, “and in time we hope to have specialists to train others in Guyana, so healthcare is evolving…so you can never say you are happy where you are; and you will always have people who are not happy…the public would have seen the development occurring with emergency medicine [At GPHC and New Amsterdam]…we will improve and there are people in the system who actually want to improve it,” Bux said.
He guaranteed Guyanese that once he is in the public health care system, there will be further improvements. “As is normal in any country, a lot of good things happen but the public is not aware of it; it’s just the bad things that go out to the media, and that happens in any system, but I ask the public to cooperate and work with us and when you have the bad eggs, report to us so we can actually take care of these matters.”
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