Government has received a complaint that persons are travelling from Suriname to Guyana to access the free health care services available in Berbice, Minister of State Joseph Harmon said last Friday, while noting that records are being gathered following which corrective action will be taken.
This revelation comes on the heels of a report that there is a shortage of drugs at the New Amsterdam Hospital, in Berbice.
Addressing reporters at a post-Cabinet press briefing, Harmon revealed that during one of his outreach meetings in Berbice, he received a complaint from regional officials that “we are having persons who are actually coming from Suriname and utilizing our medical facilities in Berbice.”