RAM Team Action in Pictures

Dr Jim Shipley attends to a baby from Kwaimatta Village.

 Volunteer Paul Maresca pictured at work in Katoka Village. 

The RAM medical team tin the central and north Rupununi wrapped up a successful expedition in partnership with the Region 9 health department.  

The team was able to travel to nine remote villages by boat and deliver a host of critical health services and education sessions.  One highlight was the portable ultrasound machine that Dr Jim Shipley used to bring advanced diagnostics and care to these isolated communities.   

This technology proved useful in many ways including as an incentive for all the pregnant women to come in for other critical services and nutrition. 

The portable Ultrasound Machine in Action.

Other services included Dental care, rehabilitation services, eye screening, mass de-worming, diabetes and hypertension screening, and even minor surgeries.

One women for example had a foreign body (splinter of wood) removed from her arm after it had been lodged there for over nine years.   Many special needs, or SPAN clients, were also screened for follow up by the Ministry of Health and other partners.  Stay tuned for more updates.

RAM Guyana Chairman, Patrick de Groot had to fix the vehicle with a piece of wood (wheel center) to make it in to Karanambu  where the boats were launched.

Patrick de Groot, Salvador de Caires, Terrence Trapnell, Dr Shipley discuss strategy.

Dentex Atkinson Daniels, Jules Fredricks, Salvador, and Druanne Browne.

Health Education at Yupukari primary school with Dentex Daniels.