Dean of the Clinical and Community Affairs of Ross University School of Medicine, Dr. Gerald Grell, has said that continued training and financial resources are necessary for medical personnel to help them save lives after an accident.
Dr. Grell was addressing the start of a national consultation on A Decade of Action for Road Safety.
He said one of the main responsibilities and contributions of health professionals to policy and activity at the workplace is to ensure that, “we have the resources in terms of staff and the resources in terms of the training that these staff receive and the resources in order that when accidents occur and people are admitted to our services that we are trained to keep them alive.”
“We need to have access to bigger facilities and we need to have local staff that have adequate equipment to keep people alive,” he noted.
According to Dr. Grell, despite the preventive measures that are in place, in the final analysis the survival and the mobility issues related to injury, require “support of the Ministry of Health, adequate facilities, adequate training and access to such facilities and such trained people at all levels, whether volunteers or professionals…”
“You need to have the money to maintain the equipment, and therefore you need to have (money) for the hospital services or the maintenance of the services,” Dr.Grell explained. “You need to have some financial continuous input into the hospital itself to maintain these sophisticated equipment and the resources necessary to move us into the present century.”
Future planning for accidents and emergencies, road traffic or otherwise requires the development of systems that ensure that the hospital has the income to maintain that equipment, Dr. Grell advised and urged the health department to look , in the future, at the matter of an integrated regional service for the OECS and wider Caribbean.
“We need to develop relationships whereby if people need newer surgery, there is a centre to which they can go…there are centres that link with us in order to apply service to Dominica or the Caribbean,” he stated.
Dr. Grell has sent a lecture to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health. Please read again carefully and comprehend and see the bigger picture. This is a warning that a big structure like the State Malice is not what makes hospital a well resourced and care environment for patients recovering from any accident, trauma or otherwise.
Please Dr. Grell send that lecture note to those above to read, that is if the have the ability to comprehend the bigger picture or do they read at all.
while it is TRUE the economy is bad with a population of less than 70000 we could come up with a formula to help our citizen for eg wenever we buy or pay bills over 100 dollars the consumer wud pay an additional dollar and the gorvernment wud martch dat out of the vat and formulate a skim dat wud take care of health issues hear and abroad im speaking of areas we cant handle locally and even wats too costly locally
The ironic thing is that, in spite of the lack of resources to handle medical emergencies, the drivers drive like maniacs. Go figure.
Dr. Grell makes a valid and vital observation. During his visit to Martinique and Guadeloupe this weekend President Hollande of France announced that each of these French overseas departments will receive a cyclotron (particle accelerator used in nuclear medicine for the treatment of cancer). I doubt if they would have been given those if they had been mere members of Caricom or the OECS. There are trauma centres in the French islands and we are smack, right in the middle with antiquated and inadequate facilities. I would advocate a closer association with Guadeloupe and Martinique (i.e. the EU) than an OECS or Caricom that bring us little tangible benefits and only cost us money. That to me would make sense.
Obvious you were a student of the late Rosie Douglas. That was his Mantra lol! he would say build economy like G/loupe& Martinique lol! I must have heard a million times .
So tell me Malgraysa are you an authentic DLP-ite or a Neo-DLP-te with a touch of DFP? Remember Zye song Computer build a quincy calypso 4 me 10 sparrow 20 lbs of Bob mally &a little bite of Zye 4 calypso king?