Annual health checks for medical staff recommended – MOPH
DPI, Guyana, Friday, May 11, 2018
The Ministry of Public Health is seeking to ensure that medical professionals don’t neglect their own health during their hectic schedule of caring for others.
Health workers.
Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence announced that starting this year, medical staff will be able to access free medical check-ups annually.
“In order to support our nurses and our healthcare providers in the last quarter of this year, we are going to dedicate a month and it will become a yearly feature, where all healthcare workers will be given the opportunity to have their full medical check-ups done,” Minister Lawrence explained.
This announcement was made while the minister was delivering the feature address to Nurses in Region Five, in observance of International Nurses Week.
She said that it is essential that the health status of those who deliver health services is guaranteed.
“We know the perception is that nurses and doctors in the medical profession don’t get sick because you take care of the sick, but many times we recognize in your thrust to ensure that you give service you neglect yourselves.”
Minister Lawrence assured that this initiative will be made available to healthcare workers and professional at all levels.
Just recently, during the observance of Nurses Week, Minister Lawrence announced that nurses will soon be able to access scholarships to further studies.
She also announced that a nursing college is in the pipeline, which would create a new environment for nurses to gain their medical education
By: Delicia Haynes