Minister of Public Health, Dr. George Norton, along with the Deputy Permanent Secretary, Trevor Thomas, and others, travelled to Region Two on June 12 and 13, where they visited health centres/posts in villages along the Pomeroon River.
GINA said that the team visited health centres/posts in Kabakaburi, Karawab, Abram’s Creek, Siriki and St. Monica, and observed that these facilities are lacking key requirements such as water, electricity, a refrigerator to store vaccine, and delivery beds.
“You go into health centres and turn on the pipes and they are not functioning, in spite of the fact that you have sturdy structures outside and sometimes six or even more black tanks of water, yet the toilets are not functioning nor even the sinks. I don’t think it’s rocket science, I don’t think we need persons from Georgetown to get that arranged and somewhere along the line, I think that persons who are supposed to see these things functioning have been very irresponsible,” Norton said.
