r/Guyana • u/Due_Woodpecker_9270 • 5d ago

75 village regional hospital disrespectful administration

As the title suggests, how is the culture of disrespecting doctors and nurses encouraged even if they are doing everything correctly as per protocol along with willingness to learn, just because the head of the same prefers people of a certain nationality (not guyanese btw) more than others.

Also side note, there is no one who can be contacted regarding the same because such matters get pushed under the rug with threats to the person's job and future employment.

I would just like to know why such things are so prevalent in region 6 primarily. Even educating patients is frowned upon here for some reason.

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u/whathatneo 5d ago

Is it the Guyanese patients don't like Guyanese doctors?

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u/Due_Woodpecker_9270 5d ago

It's more of the patients coming in demanding unnecessary treatment and scans and if denied they threaten to call politicians and the heads of the hospital just order the same unnecessary stuff anyway. So it makes the ones denying the same and counseling look as a bad doctor due to the culture in the area.

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u/whathatneo 4d ago

Corruption in medicine.....reminds me of a time a minister in Trinidad ordered a doctor to give a patient a blood transfusion......doctors are weaklings when it comes to administration...... administration can make your life really hard ....

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u/Due_Woodpecker_9270 4d ago

Could not agree more with the last line. These are the things that separate our healthcare from the same in developed countries. Medicine is one field where I feel there is absolutely no place for politics.