| – plans apace to revamp ambulance serviceIn recognition of the fact that Emergency Medicine is not merely carried out at the level of a health care facility, strategic moves are being streamlined by the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) to put measures in place to facilitate pre-hospital care.This course of action is expected to see the hospital introducing an Emergency Medical System which will incorporate an ambulance service, complete with Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs).GPHC’s new Head of Department for Accident and EmergencyNewly qualified Emergency Medicine Specialist, Dr. Zulfikar Bux,Wholesale NFL Jerseys Online, is expected to spearhead this venture with support from expert officials of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University,Wholesale Basketball Jerseys, Nashville, Tennessee,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, United States.At a media briefing yesterday Dr. Bux was officially introduced to the media as “a fully trained Emergency Medicine Specialist in Guyana.”Dr. Bux, under the supervision of faculty members from Vanderbilt, successfully completed three years of rigorous training at the GPHC. He excelled in both his written and oral examinations administered on behalf of the University of Guyana by the Emergency Medicine Faculty from Vanderbilt, the University of Florida, and the University of the West Indies.Moreover, he became the first local doctor to be bestowed with the Masters of Medicine in Emergency Medicine from the University of Guyana at the institution’s 47th Convocation ceremony last week Saturday. Another 11 residents have already commenced the programme as moves are made to further improve the delivery of emergency medicine care.In the meantime Dr. Bux’s accomplishment has allowed for him to be appointed as Head of Department for Accident and Emergency at the GPHC.He has an ambitious plan to not only improve Emergency Medicine at the hospital but even outside of the institution. This will see the unfolding of a pilot project, perhaps as early as the beginning of the New Year, which will see the implementation of an improved ambulance care service. “We have realised at this point in time if there is an accident on the road you are brought here in a taxi…we are going to start an ambulance service to (cater to) the communities within Georgetown,” according to Dr. Bux.Ahead of this though, he noted that efforts will be made to train personnel, including drivers and EMTs,Cheap World Cup Jerseys 2018, for this venture, even as other necessary measures are put in place.At the moment the ambulance response of the GPHC is not a structured one,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys Outlet, Dr. Bux acknowledged, even as he added that the ambulance service in place is designed to accommodate inter-hospital care. “If you are a member of the public and you call for an ambulance it will depend on the availability. At this point in time we have an attendant who is not a paramedic or an EMT and we have the ambulance driver; if there is need for actually a physician or a nurse,Cheap China Jerseys, we would make that decision according to the severity,” Dr. Bux explained.He underscored though that since “generally the reliability of the ambulance service in this country is not what it should be, as is expected in the US and other developed countries, we are working to improve it.”According to Dr Bux,Cheap NFL Jerseys, the plan is being formulated in close collaboration with the Ministry of Health and its overseas medical partners with a view of implementing an Emergency Medical System at the GPHC before it is expanded throughout the country.He explained that the proposed pilot project will undergo needful tweaking before it is allowed to be rolled-out further.Also present at yesterday’s press briefing was Dr John Paul Rodhe, Medical Director of the Vanderbilt Emergency Department and project leader for the Vanderbilt/GPHC collaboration. In commenting on the improved ambulance service he explained that “a critical piece of this system is not to say that we don’t have ambulances or there are not people to drive them…these exist…but the plans that we have a great deal to do with linking of the ambulances with a communication system and with a tracking system that will help us position effectively so that when the public needs one it is available in a reliable way.”The forum was also attended by other Vanderbilt officials including: Dr. Corey Slovis, Dr. Stephan Russ and Dr. Nicolas Forget, all of whom have been, and continue to work closely with Dr. Bux and by extension the GPHC to improve Emergency Medicine. |
