Expansion of healthcare facilities for kidney transplants necessary

TIMES INT'L

Dear Editor,
One in every four persons suffers from a kidney disease and in the U.S.  nineteen people die every day, awaiting a kidney transplant. Many wait for seven to nine years before they can receive this.
However, in Guyana, at a recent sod-turning exercise, the Doobay Medical Centre was endorsed for more effective work and the health facility is to be expanded.
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Doobay Medical Centre, Dr Budhendranauth Doobay, said that the expansion is to facilitate the ever pressing and increasing need for good healthcare to Guyanese patients, especially those that require dialysis treatment.
Dear Editor, unhealthy eating habits lead to kidney diseases and I suggest that more schools embrace a canteen system that panders to local food.  I see no reason for fast food. There is too much to risk in the consumption of deep fried chickens and oil soaked French Fries. What about our own plantain? What about our own home-cooked chicken and fish, as well as vegetables?
I visited a friend quite recently and his mother gave me a meal with home grown vegetables. She had these planted in a plot behind her kitchen sink.
The plot was small but it provides this 70-year-old with enough greens and vegetables for her family of six. This is the kind of thing we have to push in Guyana.
Having quarrelled a bit, it is good to know that the kidney institution here is a non- profit organisation.
It was opened sometime in September, 2011 and serves to give haemodialysis to patients through cost recovery of about Gy$15,000.
Also many persons, from the opening to present, have been receiving their treatments free of cost, since the centre has a “no rejection of the sick” policy. This final note is very important.
The cost factor of many private institutions is ‘killing’ people. ‘They die before they die.’ They just cannot afford it.
That is why when I read about ‘medicare’ expansion in Guyana, especially from the government, I am so enthused.
The many health centres in Guyana must not be slighted. As for the outreaches, the more there are, the better it is for all Guyanese.
So kudos to the health sector in Guyana!
Yours sincerely,
Kamaludeen Emraan

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