DOCTOR Narash Torrez is calling on the relevant authorities to look into the situation at the Baramita Health outpost in Region One, as a shortage of medication and equipment plagues the institution.

Baramita, which is located in Barima-Waini (Region One) is about 20 miles west of Matthews Ridge and home to more than 450 residents.
Torrez explained during an interview with the Guyana Chronicle that his love for the job was being badly threatened, firstly by the situation at his living quarters to impure drinking water or even a working refrigerator.

“I love my job…. I love helping people, but the situation is overbearing,” the doctor said, as he pointed out that there were only six medical workers stationed at the Baramita Health Outpost.

He added that there were insufficient medical supplies at the outpost and several times patients have to be air-dashed to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
However, he said if his outpost had the medications, the patients could have been treated on site.

Additionally, the all-terrain vehicle (ATV) which is attached to the medical hospital has been down for months and is in need of servicing. With the only means of transportation at the outpost, home visits to sick patients are impossible because of the terrain in the hinterland.
“I want persons to know what is going on,” Torrez stressed, as he explained that persons would blame the doctors at the medical outpost when they can’t be provided with the treatment or service, but fail to enquire whether that medical institution has the medication or equipment to do so.