Domlec presents dialysis machine to PMH

Dialysis machine donated to PMH by DOMLEC
Dialysis machine donated to PMH by DOMLEC

The Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) is now equipped with a new dialysis machine, courtesy of Dominica’s sole electricity company, DOMLEC.

The machine which cost just under EC$80,000 was donated to the PMH at a ceremony on Friday.

The donation also included a dialysate meter to monitor the functions of the dialysis machine and a chair recliner for so that the patients can be comfortable lying down while they receive their dialysis.

Board member of DOMLEC, Adler Hamlet, who spoke at the ceremony that the dialysis machine has been very dear to him.

He explained that in 2012 he learnt while visiting a very good friend who was a patient at the PMH, that he was low priority for dialysis as he was over 65.

Hamlet then did some research on that issue and found out that the there was a shortage of dialysis machines at the hospital and persons 65 and older, “had to wait at the end of the line.”

“Immediately, I went to the Rotary Club and made a presentation to the club that we need to help the hospital…let us provide for the older people and bring them up in line with the others,” he explained.  “I put forward a project for the club, and we sought to put a committee together and made representation to the PMH so that we could get a dialysis machine.”

According to Hamlet, in 2015, he got the opportunity to push for his “pet project” when DOMLEC decided to assist the hospital. “so there is no way that it was going to be refused when the donation committee made representation to assist the hospital, that I was not going to support it, so I must say it is dear to me because I saw the need for it and today I can say that it’s through some other organization that I am associated with that I am able to at least see  the realization on this unit being brought to the hospital.”

He expressed the hope that provision has been made for space at the hospital to locate the equipment.

“We do not want to make this donation and then down the years, two-three years when the hospital is completed that there is no space or adequate provision has not been made for it and it is packed on a side. We would feel at DOMLEC that such a gift this morning, such a gesture would be in fact a waste of time,” he noted.

Health Minister, Dr. Kenneth Darroux, said it’s “refreshing” to see that DOMLEC is giving back some of the profits about which it was criticized, to the people, “the people who tap into your services.”

He said it is always comforting to him as a government Minister to see that people give back and added that more individuals need to come on board, “less talk and more action, more demonstrations in practical ways as to how they can help.”

Darroux said that criticism of the health system, the health structure and even the PMH was not helping anybody, “because at some point we might be millionaires, we might have the ability to be flown over.”

However pointed out that before being flown to another country, that patient would have to be taken to the PMH, “to be stabilized before your fancy helicopter comes to pick you up to take you over.”

The Minister revealed that there will be provision for a dialysis section at the new National Hospital.

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24 Comments

  1. Mamosa
    August 16, 2016

    Let us leave the politics out of this. Thank you DOMLEC for your much needed gift. Here’s hoping that others, (Cooperation/Business) will copy.

  2. Annon
    August 15, 2016

    Thanks Domlec that’s the least you can do, what took you so long. Please lower rates so they can afford to run the thing. Thanks again.

  3. carottop
    August 15, 2016

    great, but does anybody in the hospital know how to run it, not likely.

  4. LifeandDeath
    August 15, 2016

    Thx to Domlec for making a tangible contribution to the PMH..Dominicans have to appreciate the innitiative ’cause many are poised to benefit. Hope government can better spend the CBI money through small but important and critical areas like this one.

    Why Darroux giving Maypwi so ..Domlec made less than $10M profit and saw it possible to contribute a dialysis machine for $80,000. but Gov’t collect over $200M in CBI and couldn’t buy another machine??

    Some Ministers in DA gov’t have real Guts..

  5. who cares
    August 15, 2016

    that is the least domlec can do after all the money they have sucked from this country

  6. %
    August 15, 2016

    Both Darroux the health minister and Skerrit the PM, are two extraordinarily terrible public speakers, that our children must not emulate.You tell them to talk about mangoes and they will talk about UWP,you tell them to talk about apples they talk about honourable Lennox Linton….While I congratulate DOMLEC,i, like a previous blogger would also like lower rates,so that I can make my contribution to endeavours of my choice…With the now booming passport sales,and the lack of TRANSPARENCY and ACCOUNTABILITY which goes with it,i find it strange that the one man government could not purchase this machine in quick time.

  7. Music Producer
    August 15, 2016
  8. Justice LeBlanc
    August 15, 2016

    kudos to DOMLEC; we need more corporate citizens thinking positive…Forward thinking; we own this great islands and we choose who and how it is run. The Peoples Power!

  9. Citizen
    August 14, 2016

    Great Job!! More like this needs to be done!!

  10. ABOLOR
    August 14, 2016

    We need another electric company in Dominica to halt de monopoly on DOMLEC. They are blood suckers, now they want to circulate and centrifuge de blood. :twisted: We need a lower rate of kw/hr. Then our blood will be just fine.

    • Dominican National
      August 16, 2016

      ABOLOR, how you expect to have top quality service “free of charge”. DOMLEC is not a blood sucker, just excellent management and good staff backup. May God bless DOMLEC always!

  11. Hamil
    August 14, 2016

    Oh praise God . I am pondering . Where is all the passport money going?. The PS of health did not know if this? I mean people , I am neither fish or fowl but I must call it as I see it.Why do we gave all these ministers? I took a visit some months ago to waten waven and the road to this beautiful tourism product is in a deplorable state,and while the government is busy trying to build a bridge in town ,the bridge linking waten waven to Trafalgar is not yet complete.where is the palrep for this constituency? Is he waiting for another Erika to happen and have these people lives in danger with only one exit? Or is he waiting for another general election to loggy the road in their faces and after he has gotten their votes forget about them again? The inner bypass bridges should have been completed and then you lazy guys should close the road and repair it properly for these poor people . During which time they could access the inner bypass bridges until the road is complete. lord help

  12. nicole
    August 14, 2016

    GREAT work Domlec. A much needed piece of equipment…I’m sure it will be very helpful.

  13. Positive
    August 13, 2016

    Thank you sooooooooooo much

  14. Sams Gutter
    August 13, 2016

    These ministers should take a course in public speaking. It’s like is “maypwie” they throwing everytime they open their mouth. That should have been a positive speech, with an appreciative tone not a political one.

    • LifeandDeath
      August 15, 2016

      I’m so feeling you on this one..the political landscape got these fellas talking like they fighting for ground everyday..

  15. Ron
    August 13, 2016

    Darroux said that criticism of the health system, the health structure and even the PMH was not helping anybody, “because at some point we might be millionaires, we might have the ability to be flown over.”

    However pointed out that before being flown to another country, that patient would have to be taken to the PMH, “to be stabilized before your fancy helicopter comes to pick you up to take you over.”

    The Minister revealed that there will be provision for a dialysis section at the new National Hospital.

  16. Yes
    August 13, 2016

    Nationalize DOMLEC and stop messing around!

    This is like someone stealing a $1000 dollars from you and then they buy you drink with your own money. Wake up fool!

    • Dominican National
      August 16, 2016

      DOMLEC is the top utility company in Dominica – no match for DOMLEC is terms of customer service from its technical staff. So ‘Yes’ be thankful.

  17. Ron
    August 13, 2016

    arroux said that criticism of the health system, the health structure and even the PMH was not helping anybody, “because at some point we might be millionaires, we might have the ability to be flown over.”

    However pointed out that before being flown to another country, that patient would have to be taken to the PMH, “to be stabilized before your fancy helicopter comes to pick you up to take you over.”

  18. Ron
    August 13, 2016

    Darroux said that criticism of the health system, the health structure and even the PMH was not helping anybody, “because at some point we might be millionaires, we might have the ability to be flown over.”

    However pointed out that before being flown to another country, that patient would have to be taken to the PMH, “to be stabilized before your fancy helicopter comes to pick you up to take you over.”

    Minister Darroux,, i must say very unpleasant statements.. always remember Sir, where you came from..

  19. elite class overseas instead
    August 13, 2016

    So Darroux knows about the local millionaires, the Nouveau Riche among, the elite class, who easily travel overseas for their medical conditions? Skerritt and his DLP Ministers took a $1000.00/month for medicals, on top of their salaries. which other Dominican receives such largesse. Surely, not the ordinary man or woman shouting Labar.

    His DLP leader do not trust having his children born in Dominica, at the PMH, so run to US, get all the benefits US citizens have fought for and leave poor to suffer and eventually die, because of lack of proper health care and equipment. How could it happen that the Nation’s hospital runs short of OXYGEN for much needed surgery? Where the elite class run to overseas for treatment, US, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Cuba or Barbados, have Oxygen, so chu poule.

    The Skerritt’s DLP Cabal would spend $80,000.00 on ceremony, fete, spend millions on bye-election, but basic equipment, medicines are scarce or non-existent. Darroux what about BITCOIN?

    • I am Dominican are you?
      August 15, 2016

      Then stay overseas. We don’t need your type of ‘elite’ in Dominica. You are just a low class jack…, malcasse, delusional nobody! You are proud not to consider yourself Dominican because you feel that makes you ‘superior’. However, you are always on DNO minding Dominicans business. Guess that’s the only place you can get any attention. Alas poor you.

  20. August 13, 2016

    Thanks,Domlec we are grateful for that generosity,All these free money the government giving away it should be spend to buy equipment for the hospital.

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