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Linden Hospital Complex benefits from $6.2 mil China donation…Marks nineteenth consecutive year of donations
The Linden Hospital Complex (LHC) has for the nineteenth consecutive year received millions of dollars in supplies and equipment from the Chinese Medical Brigade, who made the donation on behalf of the People’s Republic of China.
The $6.2 million donation was handed over to the CEO of the LHC Dr. Farouk Riyastat recently.
The donation exceeds a similar one given last year by $1.2 mil.
Some of the equipment donated included atomizer energy chips, syringe pumps, oxygen pumps, and infant oxygen hoods.
Dr Riyastat with the Chinese medical Brigade
Both Dr. Riyastat and Public Relations Officer Toshana Allicock expressed gratitude for the timely gesture.
Allicock acknowledged that the equipment will greatly complement those that were donated last year.
Among those were anaesthesia machines, portable ultrasound machines and electrocardiogram (EKG) machines.
These services are presently available around the clock at the hospital, as more staff have received the requisite training in managing the equipment, Allicock added.
Sister institutions such as the Wismar and Kwakwani Hospitals will also be benefitting from the new equipment, which would be made available as per need basis, Allicock said.
Residents who were in the past forced to travel to Georgetown, to access certain services at the Georgetown Public Hospital, lauded the initiative, and a few even expressed concern about the care and maintenance of the much needed equipment.
“It is good that the hospital is getting these types of equipment, which will boost its services, but attention must be paid to keeping them functioning properly, because too many times you hear the hospital got this equipment and that equipment-then the next thing you hear, they’re not working.
“We have to be more responsible in the way we handle these things,” one resident said.
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