An $8.5M health post was recently commissioned in Maikwak, Region 8 by Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Norman Whittaker.
A release from the Government Information Agency (GINA) said that the residents will receive improved health care as the building replaced an old wooden structure that had previously served as the health post, which had been infested with mites and bats, and had leaked in rainy weather.
The health post was completed in January 2014. It has an examination room, a waiting area, a malaria department and a washroom.
The construction contract was awarded by the Regional Procurement and Tender Administration Board to contractor Salim Yusuf.
The new building is located about 50 meters away from the old structure.
According to GINA, Whittaker said that the health post was just one of many similar projects that the PPP/C Government had completed around the country.
He said that the government had been ensuring that every single Amerindian village had facilities to dispense not only health services, but education. “In every village, there is at least a primary school. In some villages – the bigger ones we have primary schools, in others, we have secondary schools. In some villages, we have health huts; in some, health centres; and in others we have hospitals… all of these things have been happening over the last 20 plus years under the PPP/C,” he noted.
Whittaker said that this is as a result of the PPP/C government’s determination to bring education and proper health care to people, all over the country, with a focus on Amerindians.
He was accompanied by the Regional Executive Officer (REO) Ronald Harsawack, and the Assistant REO Shameer Arjoon.
Harsawack said that the health post was a perfect illustration that shows that as the coffers allow, government over time was able to provide better services to the people.
AREO Arjoon said that “the regional administration will look into fencing of the facility in the near future and to set up at a radio set that has already been delivered.”
