Health

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), in collaboration with Gift of Life International (GOLI) an international non-profit organization that provides lifesaving cardiac treatment to children in need from developing countries, on Thursday announced the start of the first of three Paediatric Cardiac Missions scheduled for 2024. This groundbreaking initiative kicked off on Sunday, April 6, with a comprehensive screening clinic ...

President Irfaan Ali on Friday announced that government was willing to “bring in” doctors to address a backlog of cases in the public health sector if those already in the system would be unable to do so. “If we have a backlog in a specific area, which are these areas and which areas will require us to bring in specialised ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Thursday accused the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) administration of failing to pay healthcare workers more but was preparing to hire Bangladeshis and other foreign healthcare workers at higher salaries, but Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said they would be paid the same as Guyanese. “You cannot bring Bangladeshis, bring whoever you want to bring and ...

Even as the Ministry of Health continued its chicken pox vaccination drive at the Lusignan Prison, East Coast Demerara, the Guyana Prison Service (GPS) on Wednesday said there was no new case of the viral disease at that penal facility. “So far, there have been no new cases of chickenpox detected at the prison facility,” the GPS said in a ...

The Ministry of Health (MOH) on Tuesday confirmed that an outbreak of chicken pox at the Lusignan Prison has afflicted 53 prisoners at that East Coast Demerara penal institution, but denied claims by the opposition coalition that nothing was being done to prevent the disease from spreading. The Health Ministry, in confirming that there were 25 active cases of chickenpox ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Hugh Todd on Monday confirmed that government has given approval to a private company to hire health care workers, and said that the company could now do so from any other country not just Bangladesh. “They have amended that…It can be Latin America and the Caribbean, it could be Asia. It is broad now so they are ...

Guyana is considering the hiring of foreign nurses to man the several hospitals that are under construction, even as hundreds of local nurses continue to migrate mainly to the United Kingdom (UK), a top government official said Wednesday. “Soon we may have to bring in nurses to work in the country- because, once those hospitals are completed and most of ...

The United States (US) on Wednesday donated 1,000 doses of Paxlovid, an oral pill that is used to treat COVID-19 patients with a high risk of severe illness or death, to Guyana, the embassy here said. The embassy said that medication complements a separate donation of 354,660 Pfizer vaccine doses. Speaking at the handover of the doses to the Ministry ...

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has now acquired modern equipment that can use ultrasonic energy to break up large and complex kidney stones without the need for open surgery, the health care institution said. The GPHC said so far more than 20 persons have benefitted from the state-of-the art Swiss Lithoclas Master ultrasonic lithotripter that was acquired at a ...

The Ministry of Labour  said it was investigating a fatal accident which occurred at approximately 7:38 AM Tuesday morning, at the John Fernandes Limited Port Facility on Water Street, Georgetown. The Labour Department said 64-year-old Trevor Jones, a stevedore foreman of Mandela Avenue, East Ruimveldt, was walking behind a super reach stacker as it was reversing when the accident occurred. ...