The Ministry of Health (MOH) yesterday said it has been aggressively advancing a number of programmes to improve people’s health and life-style. One of its flagship programme focuses on diagnosing hearing loss among children and the elderly.
The Ministry was responding to a letter, ‘Ministry of Health must cater for patients in all regions’ and published in the Sunday Stabroek, October 16, 2022, which explained that its author, E. C. Lobert of Saxakalli Village, Essequibo River was advised that the government had procured hearing aids, and he who had lost most of his sense of hearing, was expecting to hear from his clinic as to when the aid was ready to be uplifted. According to the letter, the author was saddened to learn that these aids were instead dispensed within Region Four, hence he was not to benefit.
The Ministry of Health’s release did concur with Lobert’s statement that hospitals and clinics do have a list of patients who will benefit from hearing-aids. The release goes on to say that the letter-writer is on the list of beneficiaries and will receive his hearing-aid once the audiological team visits the Bartica Hospital in the coming two weeks.
