The Ministry of Health continued its medical outreach yesterday at Unity Village, East Coast Demerara, the thirteenth stop since the ministry started on its medical outreach programme.
Equipped with a team of medically trained experts, the ministry has traversed the various reaches of Guyana, providing free of cost medical services to residents in not so easily accessible communities.
Yesterday, at the Unity/Lancaster Health Centre, residents from the Unity community benefited from general assessment and medicines for a range of mostly chronic cases. Persons assessed as having more severe chronic cases were referred to the Mahaicony Hospital.
The outreach, in addition, allowed the residents access to eye examinations from a qualified ophthalmologist. Persons assessed as having severe eye problems were referred to the Low Vision Centre housed in the compound of the Georgetown Hospital Public Corporation.
The ministry’s medical outreaches have been running since last year and communities from all over Guyana have benefitted.
The outreach continues today in Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo. (GINA)