Guyana’s Health Gap: One Doctor
Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, candidate for Secretary-General of the United Nations, describes losing a family member to Guyana’s rural health gap, a seizure, no doctor within reach, a 50-to-60-mile boat journey, and a death before arriving.
When she became Minister of Amerindian Affairs in 2001, indigenous peoples were 10% of Guyana’s population. There was one indigenous doctor in the country.
That personal loss is what shaped her approach to equitable health access.
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