Medical practitioner Derron Moonsammy of Mabaruma Township in Region One, who joined the profession on the insistence of his mother, is now in his third year, specialising in the Ministry of Health’s obstetrics/gynaecology program-me.
“In this profession, each patient is like a treasure. I believe in Jesus. There were times I wanted to give up, but something always happens to restore my faith and hope which have been magnified in this work,” he told Stabroek Weekend.
Shortly after starting the obstetrics and gynaecology programme, Dr Moonsammy said, he felt like quitting. He was on call in the accident and emergency department, had his studies to cope with and was feeling depressed when a woman approached him crying. She told him she was about 13 weeks pregnant; her first pregnancy.