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Profile Description

Dr. Meenawattie Rajkumar is a seasoned psychiatrist with over twelve years of experience in hospital and clinical mental health settings. She specializes in evaluating and treating psychiatric disorders, offering services such as medical evaluations, psychopharmacology, and psychotherapy. With a sub-specialization in forensic psychiatry, criminology, and victimology, Dr. Rajkumar is often called upon as an expert witness in psychiatric-legal cases. She also provides care to prisoners across Guyana’s prisons, employing a holistic approach that combines medication management with active listening and counseling.

Qualifications

MD, MBBS

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Services

Medical Conditions Treated:

• Provide emotional support to patients and family members.
• High level of compassion and empathy to better understand problems, challenges and needs of patients and their family.
• Provide and maintain a high level of quality inpatient and outpatient consultation services in all aspects of psychiatry.
• Utilize logic and reasoning to make potentially lifesaving or life changing decisions.
• In-depth knowledge of psychology to assess learning and motivation and to apply to research methods.
• Acute ability to read non-verbal cues to better understand patients’ emotions.
• Knowledge of Family law, including custody issues, Correctional psychiatry.
• Leadership capacity at hospital level
• Involuntary commitment, determining mental competence to stand trial, assessment of acquittal for insanity plea and evaluation of individual mental fitness for conservatorships.

Key Health Conditions & Treatments:
• Psychiatrist • Mental health specialist • Psychiatric treatment • Therapy sessions • Psychological evaluation • Mental illness diagnosis • Psychotherapy • Psychopharmacology • Behavioral health • Mental wellness support • Psychiatric disorders • Depression treatment • Anxiety therapy • Bipolar disorder management • Schizophrenia treatment • PTSD therapy • Substance abuse counseling • Eating disorder treatment • OCD therapy • Personality disorder treatment

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You can schedule an appointment with Dr. Meenawattie Rajkumar for virtual and in-person consultations through Medicas.

Dr. Meenawattie Rajkumar is currently practicing in Georgetown, Guyana, where she provides specialized psychiatric care and treatment.

Dr. Meenawattie Rajkumar holds an MD and has completed a Specialist Degree in Adult Psychiatry from Havana, Cuba, where she graduated Summa cum Laude. She also has a Postgraduate Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship, a Master's Certificate in Hospital Administration from York University, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Criminology and Victimology from the Sherlock Institute of Forensic Science, India.

Dr. Meenawattie Rajkumar speaks English and Spanish.

Patients consult Dr. Meenawattie Rajkumar for various psychiatric concerns, including the evaluation and treatment of psychiatric disorders, psychopharmacology, and psychotherapy. She also specializes in forensic psychiatry, criminology, and victimology, often being called upon as an expert witness in psychiatric-legal cases. Additionally, she provides care to prisoners and offers a holistic approach combining medication management with counseling.