A SUCCESSFUL health care institution story begins at ground zero, when medical facilities were in a very nascent stage in Region 2. However, Suddie is still to emerge as one to access all the requirements for quality health care. The government is trying to utilise every opportunity to provide better health care to the common man and woman, but there is still a shortage of drugs at this institution.Suddie Hospital is an institution that was established in the colonial days and now possesses semi state-of-the art equipment and a screening laboratory, but its diagnostic services are not the best in the country. People from all over the region and the Pomeroon River come to this hospital to avail themselves of its medical treatment. The patients sometimes have to buy their own drugs from a private pharmacy.
Although the hospital extends free and concessional treatment to the economically weaker sections of the society, and the trained nurses, doctors and technicians provide a high degree of expertise and dedication to diagnosis and treatment, the cost factor due to the limited drugs available at the institution inhibits health care.
Also, the minimum bed space requirement and passageway for wheelchair patients by international standards is not in confirmation at this hospital, and it is hard to navigate to the dressing room.
The medical and general stores are not working around–the-clock within the hospital complex. So many times if patients need to go out of the hospital to collect the drugs it is closed and they have to buy it at a nearby pharmacy on the road, so the most important crisis facing us is that of the inadequacy of drugs and medical supplies for patients. No hospital today can transform itself into a modern institution without drugs for requisite treatment.
Over the years, Government has spent millions of dollars on drugs, so we must now ensure that we get real benefits from the investment.
Written By FRUSTRATED PATIENT