Health
Specialty Hospital project is “dead”
Guyana has scrapped the India-funded Specialty Hospital project and will repay the amount of money that has been already spent...
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GPHC now out of Aspirins … Parliament team, GPHC staff clash over drug bond
The GPHC's pharmacy. The Parliamentary Committee on Social Services today (May 3, 2017) found themselves at loggerheads with the Chairperson...
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PAHO/WHO conducting forensic audit of procurement by Health Ministry, Georgetown Hospital
Ministers of Public Health, Volda Lawrence and Karen Cummings meeting with the PAHO/WHO team. The Pan American Health Organisaton/ World...
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Drunken patient, relatives assault doctors at West Demerara Regional Hospital
The condition of a doctor's office at West Demerara Regional Hospital in the aftermath of an assault of doctors by...
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Youths below age of sexual consent should access sexual and reproductive health services- PANCAP
Ms. Raymoniya Lawrence, a representative of The Caribbean Forum for Liberation and Acceptance of Genders and Sexualities (CariFLAGS) during her...
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Doctors’ contracts will not be broken and they won’t be forced to join public service
The Guyana government on Monday assured that it would not be breaking contracts with the hundreds of doctors that are...
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Guyana’s Nicolette Henry elected to chair Caribbean mechanism against HIV/AIDS
From L - R Director of the PANCAP Coordinating Unit, Mr. Dereck Springer, Prof. Donald Simeon, new Chair Hon Nicolette...
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Medical Association enraged by scrapping of “young doctors” contracts
The Guyana Medical Association (GMA) Thursday night accused government of breach of contract by scrapping a five-year agreement with young...
Read moreDetailsMinistry probes ‘drug crisis’ at GPHC
by Gary Eleazar The Ministry of Public Health has launched a full scale investigation into the recent ‘drug crisis’ at...
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Govt. taking steps to remedy Surinamese strain on Berbice Hospital
by Gary Eleazar Gregory Ceres, Pharmacist at the New Amsterdam Drug Bond (extreme right) with members of the Social Services...
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