| By Leon SuseranThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints effectively boosted the health sector of Guyana as well as several other organizations after it donated 87 wheel chairs recently at a simple ceremony at its Bones Bush Dam,Boston Red Sox Jerseys, East Canje location.Additionally, it has just completed a three-day wheelchair-fitting practical training course which saw the involvement of representatives of the beneficiaries of the wheelchair donations. Wheelchairs must be fitted properly so that the person who is using it can be comfortable and the chair can be fitted to the individual’s physical specifications.Regional Chairman of Region 6, Mr. David Armogan praised the church for the donation and encouraged them to improve the conditions of the people of Guyana.“You’ve been doing great work in terms of assisting the poor and needy in lots of communities…and this is a wonderful thing”,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, he said. He noted that more and more people “seem to be interested in what you are doing…which speaks volume for itself”.Armogan said that Region 6 is not a very wealthy region in terms of economics “and we have a lot of poor communities where a lot of assistance is needed”. He urged the church to continue to work harder in poor communities to assist them and solve some of their problems.“A lot of our people who are immobile are very poor people and so they can’t afford to purchase a wheelchair, although they might need one very badly”.Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the New Amsterdam Hospital, Mr. Alan Johnson was present to receive the wheelchairs on behalf of the institution.A Representative of the Church, Brother Spencer, said that he hopes the wheelchair initiative will not stop and that more wheelchairs will be made available to the N/A Hospitals and clinics as well as the Ministry of Health Warehouse in Georgetown, after which “assessment forms can be filled out,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, measurements taken and those forms can be shipped, mailed or carried to the warehouse where chairs can be procured and distributed to those in need”.Among the organizations and hospitals that benefitted from the wheelchairs are the N/A, Port Mourant, Skeldon and Fort Wellington Hospitals; National Insurance Scheme (N/A); N/A Special Needs School, Community-based Rehabilitation Centres in Regions 5 and 6; and Kids First Fund,Authentic NFL Jerseys Wholesale China, represented by Ms. Varshnie Singh.She was thankful for the training and donations,Cheap Jerseys From China Online, “which led us from fitting people into wheelchairs into really fitting people into wheelchairs with so many other considerations that we may have thought about but did not know until we did this training”.“We are truly grateful and appreciate the effort it takes to raise money, to buy wheelchairs and to work with us in Guyana and to satisfy our governmental requirements, so we truly appreciate everything that you went through to bring this training, so that we, the Guyanese people, who need wheelchairs and us,Cheap Jerseys From China, the fitters can properly do so”.Ms. Singh made an appeal to the CEO of the N/A Hospital and Mr. Armogan to revise the positions and remunerations of persons employed by the N/A Hospital as assistant physiotherapists to employ them as full- fledged physiotherapists and raise their salaries.Each participant of the wheel chair-fitting training workshop received certificates. Also, each organization which benefitted from the donation was given a tool-box with a set of tools that can be used for wheelchair fitting purposes. |
