In the quest to improve the delivery of emergency medicine in the public health sector, a number of strides have been made. This has included the training of doctors to specialise in this crucial area of medicine.While a thriving emergency medicine response exists at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), there are plans apace to expand this service to public health facilities across the country.This is according to Head of the Accident and Emergency Unit at the GPHC,Wholesale Jerseys, Dr. Zulfikar Bux.Dr. Bux,Jerseys Wholesale, during a recent interview with this publication, informed that “we have done quite a lot. The doctors we have trained to be emergency specialists, these guys are taking up small roles and actually helping to deliver improved patient care.”But according to Dr. Bux, “our plan is not only to look at it from the physician’s point of view, but we want to train emergency nurses as well.”As a result, he disclosed that efforts are being made at the GPHC to expose nurses to specialty training in emergency medicine. In addition to this, he said that “we have already trained emergency medical technicians (EMTs).”? These trained EMTs, currently amounting to about 16, are transported by ambulances to respond to reported emergency cases in and around the city.Dr. Bux said he is currently aiming to develop teams of emergency health care professionals who will be placed at hospitals and health centres across the country. This,Cheap Jerseys USA, he noted, would serve to ensure that patients with emergency conditions can be easily managed and therefore do not have to be transported to the GPHC to get medical care.“Everybody does not need to be referred to the GPHC because once these teams are in place; they (patients) can have time-sensitive care at every hospital in the country.”This move is particularly important, Dr. Bux added,Wholesale Jerseys, since it has been observed that if patients are afforded immediate and effective interventions within the first hour of a medical emergency, it could increase their chances of survival.The Emergency Specialist explained that “we call that first hour the golden hour where quite a lot of morbidity and mortality can actually be avoided and that is what emergency health professionals are there for…that is why they are needed,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, and my plan is to develop a national system with that approach.”Moreover, the plan, as detailed by Dr. Bux,Wholesale Authentic NFL Jerseys, is to take the model of Emergency Medicine offered at the GPHC to all of the other public health facilities countrywide. He however added that “I realise, as the Head of the Emergency Room, that it might not be the best way to do this, because this is focusing on what we do at the GPHC.”Dr. Bux indicated that support has been forthcoming on how to create a national emergency medical service office, which could function as the nerve centre for the national medical emergency response.“My goal is to get that started and be part of it to ensure that it is done properly, and hopefully in the next five to 10 years I can safely say that, once all would have gone well, every hospital in Guyana, especially the regional hospitals, would have developed emergency medical responses, and not just with the staffing, but the appropriate equipment and space for them to do their job,” added Dr. Bux.Currently, the GPHC is the only facility embracing an efficient emergency response but according to the Head of Emergency Medicine, “there is still need for some tweaking to improve it. There isn’t a model like what we have (at the GPHC) anywhere else in the country, and we realise that this is a big lacking and we need to address that and address it soon.”As such, Dr. Bux has disclosed that his goal is to ensure that measures to improve and expand emergency medicine nationally is realised as swiftly as possible.“We’ve recognised that it can’t just be about the GPHC…we are the face of the patients, we are the face of health care and the country when it comes to medical emergencies. So it is my goal to nationalise this thing,” he asserted.