– Ramsammy
THE sum of US$20M has been allocated towards the establishment of a new, specialist hospital which will be operational within the next two years, Minister of Health, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy has announced. During an interview with the Guyana Chronicle at the National Care and Treatment Centre on Tuesday, he said it would be the single largest health project ever to be undertaken in Guyana.
“If you combine all projects that have been completed, in terms of hospitals, they would not be equal to this project that we are looking at,” Ramsammy boasted.
According to him: “Everything in this hospital will be specialised, the equipment, the doctors…everything will be done at this hospital.”
The minister said this intervention would allow Guyana to have its very own surgeries performed at this new hospital, thus decreasing the number of patients who are sent abroad to have operations done.
“We are moving to the next notch. We have already been decreasing the number of persons going abroad for surgeries and we are working to eliminate that,” he pointed out.
Ramsammy said that, with time, instead, persons will be flying into Guyana to have operations done, a trend that has already started.
He said that Guyana will be providing the highest possible care necessary for its people with this new development.
While persons will have to pay for the service, Government will be putting strategies in place to assist those who are unable to meet the requirement, Ramsammy explained.
He said the hospital will be open to both citizens and non-citizens. However, Guyanese will be afforded a subsidised cost.