Living in Guyana one has to struggle some days to look past this or that irregularity– street garbage; Exxon flaring; inhumane treatment of animals; etc–but some days the light comes on. My wife Annette and I encountered the latter two days ago when we set foot in the Ministry of Housing compound in Brickdam for our first vaccine shot. The operation there, with a crew assembled by Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, was a classic case of a group of professionals taking charge of a situation with potential anxiety and tension and making it run like a well oiled machine. The attitude was there across the board in the disciplined professionals in the building starting with the friendly greeting and the continuous calm in a situation that can sometimes be tense. I have no idea if, indeed, Dr. Ramsammy’s team was put through any hoops prior to taking on the mission, but it was smooth as silk, starting with the initial questions about one’s health with Nurse Henry and ending with the celebration individual photo after all the official bit was over.
