There are only 42 doctors operating in Guyana who are licensed by the Medical Council of Guyana as specilised Medical Practitioners.

Many doctors in Guyana give the impression that they are more qualified than they really are, even though a medical practitioner has a wide range that he or she can legally practice within, he or she is yet restricted to the limit of their qualification and medical training. Some medical practitioners in Guyana have been overstepping their qualifications and the results have been disastrous. This has been happing in the orthopedic and the gynecology areas and it seems that the Medical Council of Guyana has been turning a blind eye to this frightening occurrence.

In the orthopedic field in Guyana there are just two Guyanese doctors who are highly trained and qualified orthopedic specialists, they are Dr. Terrence Joseph and Dr. Fawcett Jeffery, yet there is a medical practitioner by the name of Benjie Singh who operates out of the Prasads Hospital on Middle Street who is not an orthopedic specialist but yet this hospital without the knowledge of their patients are allowing this very medical practitioner to carry out orthopedic operations, many of his operations have gone terribly wrong resulting in persons being maimed and disabled for life.

In 1996, I was taken to Prasads Hospital with a broken right leg. When they were taking information from me, I asked the girl at the front desk if Dr. Singh was an orthopedic specialist and she said yes. When he came over to check me, I asked Benjie Singh himself if he was the bone specialist who was going to operate on me and he answered in the affirmative saying that he was the best orthopedic specialist in the country, I felt good about that because I then expected to be well taken care of. Benjie Singh operated on me the very next day, he made a 12 inch incision on the side of my right leg and went down to the bone when the fracture was. The femur bone was broken clean in a slant. Benjie Singh pulled back the leg and inserted 5 self tapering screws into the bone without any brace plates or backup support for the screws that he had placed in my leg. He then proceeded to stitch me back up adding an ounce of iodine and bandages to complete the operation. Those bandages were only taken off some three weeks after the operation by a nurse that he had sent to my house to do same. When I checked the x-rays that were taken the day after the operation, I noticed that some of the screws has blunt ends as if they were broken with a pliers, one of the screws had been placed on a grinding stone making the end smoother than the other four.

I was taken back to Prasad's hospital six weeks later for a checkup and to see if the new x-ray would show that my bones were healed enough for me to walk. When we took the x-ray, it showed that the screws had loosened up and that the bone was more broken up than when I first had the accident. I was devastated and now well and truly frightened. Benjie Singh told my family to take me home and pray for me and with that he walked away leaving me sitting watching him in amazement, how could a doctor be so heartless and unconcerned for someone that he had done so much damage to. I was taken back home and the next day I was taken to Medical Arts Center where I met Dr. Terrence Joseph who immediately admitted me to the hospital. Surgery was fixed for the very next day.  It took every piece and more of the tremendous knowledge of Dr. Terrence Joseph over an eleven month period to fix my damaged leg and I owe my leg and entire life to this outstanding orthopedic surgeon and I tell him that every time that I see him.

I wish to advise persons who are in need of orthopedic operations to make sure that they contact the doctors who are qualified in the orthopedic field to ensure that they receive the best possible care. I highly recommend both Dr. Terrence Joseph and Dr. F. Jeffery for orthopedic cases here in Guyana. Dr. Ricardo is an orthopedic surgeon from Cuba and he is also highly recommended.

Below is the list of specialist Doctors operating in Guyana as sanctioned by the Medical Council of Guyana

Kindly note that the name of Dr. Benjie Singh is not listed as an orthopedic specialist on this certified Guyana Medical Council's list of specialists.