By Wendella Davidson

OVER 40 years ago, Dr Abdulla Amin started a career in the medical field in Guyana, and to date, he has performed major surgeries in all of the major hospitals in this country.
Since 2011, Dr Amin has been functioning as the head of the Obstetrics and Gynaecology (O&G) Department at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre (DDC), Diamond, East Bank Demerara, after being transferred there from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), where he was performing duties in the maternity and obstetrics ward.

The doctor, who started his career on November 12, 1978, initiated at the DDC, the O&G Department and also established a maternity ward and delivery section that continues to do deliveries to date.

In an exclusive interview with the Pepperpot Magazine, an affable Dr Amin revealed that after joining the profession, he worked from Crabwood Creek and throughout the Berbice area, before being transferred to the GPHC where he worked from 1992-1999.
In 2011, Dr Amin Joined the Government Surgical Outreach Programme and subsequently performed O&G surgeries at hospitals at Lethem, Mabaruma and Bartica; a job he said he thoroughly enjoys .

He stated that, even though the DDC is physically a small building, the services that are offered there are wide-ranging and include minor surgeries, as it is equipped with an operating theatre which can handle general surgery and obstetrics and gynaecology cases. It also boasts intensive care and recovery rooms.

These procedures can be from an ordinary evac, a surgical abortion that is typically performed midway during the second trimester of pregnancy, and in which the uterine cervix is dilated and foetal tissue is removed, using surgical instruments (as a forceps and curette) and suction, also called D&E; DNC -Dilation and curettage is a procedure to remove tissue from inside your uterus); and total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy ( TAH-BSO), among others .

The facility previously used to perform about three to four caesarean (CS) surgeries weekly, but none are currently being done, and Dr Amin says he looks forward to the day when they can resume undertaking such a procedure.
The gynaecology clinic looks at cases such as ovarian cysts, urinary tract infections and also do visual inspections of the cervix to diagnose cervical cancer.

Dr Amin is assisted in performing his duties by two other doctors, eight midwives, staff nurses and nursing assistants.