Georgetown : Autism remains one of the challenging conditions that face the delivery of paediatric care, in Guyana a state of affairs that could be compounded if the requisite human resource and treatment are not readily available. This disclosure was made by Dr. Narendra Singh, a Guyana born Paediatrician who currently resides and works in Toronto, Canada. Dr. Singh was recently appointed External Director of the Masters of Paediatric Programme, which is being offered by the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation’s Institute of Medical Science. He revealed during an interview that “having been trained and currently working in North America we have found that when we look for it (autism) in children we find it and when we find it we have to be very careful that we have the resources to take care of it.”
Autism is a developmental disorder that appears in the first three years of life and affects the brain's normal development of social and communication skills.
And in order to address this problem locally, Dr Singh said that the Masters of Paediatric Programme curriculum incorporates identifying children with the condition at an early age and outlining how it is treated. He pointed out though that the treatment of the condition is not a singular process as it is not merely the prescribing of a pill or just by a physician treating a condition. “This is a multi-disciplinary approach that requires care but you also have to have a lot of allied health care people involved in the assessing of children and constant treatment in terms of counselling to get them to be high functioning as they potentially can be…”
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