The NDC on development in Yakusari Village
Excavation works being done in the village (Carl Croker photos)
Excavation works being done in the village (Carl Croker photos)

OVERSEER Vishnu Dyasindoo’s Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) disclosed that for the 2021 works programme for the village they constructed some wooden connecting bridges in Yakusari.

Midwife, Alithia Ramgolan

Those bridges replaced deplorable ones and some internal streets have been earmarked for crush-and-run composition to be executed. He explained that in Yakusari Village they have two types of canals, the water coast and the sideline and during a meeting recently it was agreed by all parties that instead of building bridges over canals they will use tubings.

Dyasindoo stated that this year’s subvention of $5 million will be used to upgrade the drainage and irrigation system within the community and presently internal drains are being cleaned and cleared of weeds.

He disclosed that there are 32 internal streets within the village and some will be upgraded to crush and run and bitumen. The overseer reported that the main access road will be upgraded through the Ministry of Public Works and the internal streets will be done via the regional administration.

He revealed that four wooden bridges were constructed this year in the community and excavation works are currently being done to the front drains in the village. Dyasindoo told the Pepperpot Magazine that the excavator is presently cleaning the back drains in the village and similar works will be done throughout the entire Black Bush Polder.

Concerning the water woes at Yakusari Village, Dyasindoo explained that the Yakusari Well has been out of order for months and the Guyana Water Inc. is trying to effect repairs, but if it is not possible a new well will be in place, since potable water is being rationed from the Johanna Well between Johanna and Yakusari.

The Yakusari Health Centre
Alithia Ramgolan is a midwife and she is in charge of the Yakusari Health Centre, which is located in the heart of the village, just by the village market. She told the Pepperpot Magazine that the facility doesn’t dispense drugs, except for children’s cold syrup and they do not have an in-house doctor.

Yakusari Health Centre (Carl Croker photos)

Ramgolan stated that they provide ante-natal, pre-natal, family planning, dressings and being a rural health facility, a lot of young mothers are left with multiple pregnancies rapidly; as such, they have partnered with the New Amsterdam Hospital to have the five-year implant birth control done at the Yakusari Health Centre.

She reported that every third Thursday a visiting doctor would arrive to host the chronic disease clinic, see geriatric patients and do basic dressings.

Ramgolan has been at the health centre for one year and 10 months and she would get around via her motorcycle, which is risky at times due to the muddy conditions of the village.

She added that they do not see any patients but refer them to the Mibicuri Hospital which is a village away; but it is difficult to get there because of the condition of the road and one would have to hire a vehicle to get there since there aren’t taxis plying that route.

Ramgolan pointed out that she does not perform any first-time deliveries nor deliver high-risk patients; she does referrals to the New Amsterdam Hospital.

“I used to be a community health worker for two years and fell in love with the job, so I decided to upgrade and enrolled in the nursing school and after two years, I became a qualified midwife,” she said.

The Yakusari Health Centre is staffed and managed by Ramgolan, one clinic attendant and a community health worker.

The facility has a child-friendly corner, an ante-natal room which has an air conditioning unit and a fridge, which is used to store drugs, an exam room/dressing room, a vaccine room and the upstairs has three rooms which have a kitchen area and the doctor’s office.

One of the four new wooden bridges in the community

It is a two-flat building which is well-kept as well, as neat and clean.

The upper flat is also used by the visiting doctor for outreach purposes and when they had their first COVID-19 vaccination drive at the facility, about 40 persons received their first dose because most people had consumed alcohol at a wedding in the village and could not take it.

The Yakusari Health Centre is open from Mondays to Fridays from 08:00hrs to 16:30hrs and would often do referrals and simple dressings.

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