A new, 40-bed private hospital was opened at Hampshire, Region Six on Saturday and it is expected to complement the services available at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital.
The Anamayah Memorial Hospital, completed in March this year, was established by the family of the late attorney-at-law, Joseph Anamayah in his memory. Anamayah died at the age of 68. He was a prominent Berbice lawyer and Commissioner of Oaths to Affidavits, of Hampshire Village Corentyne. He died at his home in April last year after a period of prolonged illness.
The multi-million dollar, state-of-the-art hospital was officially commissioned in the presence of Prime Minis-ter Samuel Hinds, Minister of Health Dr. Leslie Ramsammy and Regional Chairman Region 6, Zulfikar Mustapha, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported. The medical institution is equipped with 40 beds, state-of-the-art theatres where both major and minor surgeries could be done, and is expected to complement several services available at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital, such as x-ray and pharmacy, GINA said. Construction commenced at the hospital, which is headed by Dr Ryan Anamayah, in August 2008.
Hinds congratulated the Anamayah family for making a dream of their foreparents a reality and challenged those present to aim for similar aspirations, GINA reported. Ramsammy said that since 1992 the PPP Government had established a policy on health, thereby making health the business of all, since health is the nation’s wealth.
“He further stated that government has ensured that Guyanese are enjoying the highest quality of health care services available. Addition-ally, the private sector has been contributing to the health sector by providing quality services to those who can afford,” GINA reported.
Ramsammy informed those present that while there is a partnership between the public and private sectors, to ensure that quality services are available to the public, 90 percent of the surgeries in Guyana are done at the public centres, GINA said. He further mentioned that between the years 1985-1992 babies under the age of five died at an alarming rate because of the unavailability of free quality health care services. Today health care providers throughout the various administrative regions have significantly reduced the number of yearly deaths, the report said.
