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Jun 26, 2016 Sports
….As MOPH marked Nat Rehab week
Friday was the final day of National Rehab week and long serving Physiotherapist Beverly Nelson wants more sports persons to make use of the Ministry of Public Health’s Sports Clinic located at Castellani House on Homestretch Avenue
This year’s theme was ‘Celebrating and Reconnecting Rehabilitation Services’ and the week of activities to mark rehab week commenced on Sunday 19th June and concluded Friday.
The clinic, which reopened its doors just under a year ago, includes Physiotherapy services, occupational therapy services, speech and language therapy, audiology service, Open door centre, Cheshire Home and the sports clinic.
The facility is open on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 09:00hrs to 15:00hrs and is supervised by a specialist doctor on both days and according to Nelson since the reopening of the clinic, the response has been good. She informed that Sportspersons are treated at the clinic free of charge.
“Our aim is to create the awareness level of the facility and what are capable of doing here and also inform the patients about the individuals who provide the services at the clinic,” disclosed Nelson who has been with the institution since it was inaugurated 13 years ago.
In addition, as part of its rehab week commemoration, the entity has included the Guyana Blind Cricket team into its weekly programme. The team went through several exercises under the watchful eyes of the staffs of the clinic.
West Indies Blind cricketer Ganesh Singh, a senior member of the blind cricket team, preparing for a Regional West Indies Cricket Council tournament, set to bowl off on July 9 in Trinidad said that it’s a privilege to utilize the facility because the players or the Guyana Blind Cricket Association cannot afford to pay for gym time and training facilities.
National Boxing Champion Clive Atwell who is preparing to journey to Trinidad to do a second brain Surgery to insert a ‘plate’ in his head and is experiencing ‘numbness’ in his left leg after his first surgery to the right side of his head also plans to utilize the facility before he departs for Trinidad.
Nelson, one of the most experienced Physiotherapists in Guyana, invited those in the sporting fraternity to take advantage of the Sports Clinic and emphasized that sportspersons do not have to pay for rehabilitation after injuries. (Sean Devers)
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