Patients visiting the Agricola Health Centre with clinical signs of chikungunya are being referred to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) because the centre has no pharmacist on staff to prescribe medication to treat the symptoms.
A source at the health centre yesterday told Stabroek News that health workers were seeing patients everyday with symptoms of the virus but were unable to treat them because there was no pharmacist on hand to prescribe medication. The health centre has been without a pharmacist for the past two weeks.
“No one has replaced the other one and when patients come they get angry and complain that they have to
