The number of heart disease cases seen at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) was yesterday described as “unbelievable” by Professor Debra Isaac of the University of Calgary in Alberta Canada.“I see more heart abnormalities here in a period of a week than I would see in a couple of months at home,” a state of affairs she claimed was ideal for the purpose of teaching.From left: Doctors Arnelle Sparman, Angelina Dhani, Thashana Teekah and Sarah V. Lalman, who together represent the second batch of graduates from the local Echocardiography Education Programme.Professor Isaac, who has since 2012 been integrally involved in delivering the Guyana Echocardiography Education Programme offered at the public hospital, made the revealing remarks when she presented a Report of the Programme at a graduation ceremony for the second batch of doctors to undertake the programme.Four doctors – Angelina Dhani,Supply NFL Jerseys Factory, Arnelle Sparman,Bill Lee Jersey, Thashana Teekah and Sarah V. Lalman – undertook the programme, which according to Professor Isaac, was a very gruelling experience that lasted for a period of eight weeks.Doctors Sparman and Lalman are attached to the GPHC while Doctors Teekah and Dhani are attached to the East Bank Demerara Hospital and the Linden Hospital Complex respectively.The programme was first introduced in 2012 when three doctors experienced its intense sessions.Speaking at the simple ceremony? at the GPHC Resource Centre, Professor Isaac, in explaining the importance of the programme said, “You can have all of the equipment that you need, but if you don’t have human resources and you don’t have people who know what to do…it doesn’t really work that well.”Professor Isaac said that after being engaged in a meeting with the local Ministry of Health,Jerseys From China, the GPHC and the University of Guyana, it was deduced that an imperative requirement was an education programme.As such, a programme was developed to educate Guyanese health professionals to perform and interpret ultrasound which in essence is the practice of echocardiography.This required moves to put in place an echocardiography laboratory, complete with equipment and software,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, at the public hospital which was setup last year and has since been utilised by two of the three members of the first batch of graduates to perform various cardiac diagnostic tests. The other graduate is currently undertaking similar procedures at the New Amsterdam hospital.According to Professor Isaac,Wholesale Jerseys 2018, the Echocardiography programme consisted of a pre-course education module where information is provided to the candidates and this is internalised over a period of four weeks.During this time, the candidates of the programme were subjected to an online mentorship programme and examinations which were immediately followed by an eight-week programme at the GPHC echocardiography lab.The final week of the programme saw candidates undergoing several clinical correlation sessions and evaluations and according to Professor Isaac who noted that “it is surprising that they are still able to smile…”A number of echocardiography specialists and technologists volunteered their time and knowledge to the programme which complemented the skills of doctors which were recruited by the Health Ministry to facilitate the programme.Addressing the now echocardiography lab certified doctors, yesterday, was Cardiologist attached to the Caribbean Heart Institute, Dr. Mahender Carpen,Authentic Jerseys Cheap, who also acts in the capacity of Director of Internal Medicine.According to him, it is expected that the graduates would utilise their knowledge to specifically target cardiovascular diseases and help to have a significant impact on reducing mortality in the population.“We are hoping that in the near future we will move from a third to maybe a quarter and then even less…elsewhere 80 and 90 years is the life expectancy; we are going to get there at some point and it will start by targeting the area that takes most of our people – cardiovascular diseases,” said Dr. Carpen.