Dear Editor,
These responses to me by email and other notes are intended to complete or correct the picture in my recent letter about the rural renal clinic at Annandale. I thank the contributors.
One email read, “I’ve just read your interesting letter re Dr. Doobay’s Renal Centre on the East Coast of Demerara. Hadn’t heard of it. From my recollection, there was the Dr. Alli-Shaw Hospital in Georgetown, also hospitals in Skeldon, Bartica, Mabaruma. I think there was just a clinic in Lethem.” Lethem has a hospital, and I had named only specialist government hospitals. Another is the Sugar Producers Association-built diagnostic centre at Ogle.
The other reader reminded me of the Mahaica hospital which I had placed at Unity. He added, “The Anamaya family built a hospital at Hampshire in the Corentyne as a memorial to Joseph.” Then in the Guyana Cultural Association’s magazine I was reminded of the 30-year-old year old Baja movement’s Alternative Medicine Care and Convalescent Clinic at Beterverwagting-Triumph.
For the record, two well-known heavyweights appeared at times of real, acute general need. They are Prashad’s hospital and Woodlands.
Yours faithfully,
Eusi Kwayana
