DOCTOR Cheetanand Mahadeo who recently completed his fellowship in Thoracic Surgery at McMaster University has rejoined the medical team at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). Dr Mahadeo is originally from Crabwood Creek, Berbice. He left Guyana to pursue his fellowship in Thoracic Surgery in July 2013 and returned July of this year.
He noted that since the hospital did not have a Thoracic Surgeon, he thought it best to do his fellowship in this field to help offer better care to patients.
Specialising in this field was a life changing experience he noted, adding: “The training is incomparable to anything we have locally; it exposed me to an entirely different approach to take care of patients.” The doctor’s area of skill is treating everything outside of the heart such as lung cancer, other cancers in the chest and chest masses.
However, patients will not be only the ones who benefit from Dr Mahadeo’s expertise but doctors too, since he is part of the graduate education programme at the hospital and as such will be teaching residents both theory and practical.
He disclosed his plans to develop Thoracic Surgery at the hospital by creating the first Thoracic Service in Guyana and said he has been working closely with the GPHC’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr Michael Khan. “We have been trying to get a list of equipment, a budget, proposals and quotations for the basic, essential stuff,” the doctor stated. (Navendra Seoraj)