Matured vaccination programme bearing fruit
Guyana’s Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) has matured from the initial tight focus on children when it began some 40 years ago to targeting...
Addressing Multiple Health Problems
Advances in medicine have led to increased life expectancy and as our population lives longer, there is a higher likelihood of being afflicted with...
PCOS – An increasingly common medical disorder among women
There are a number of medical disorders that women can be faced with over the lifetime. One that is becoming increasingly common is one...
Food allergies – an ever prevailing challenge
It is estimated that every three minutes someone has to visit a medical emergency department for a food allergy of some sort. In fact...
Chinese nationals with infectious disease successfully treated at GPHC
The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) successfully treated and discharged two Chinese nationals who were inflicted with an infectious disease at the Guyana Manganese...
PANCAP to host meeting to address migrants rights in HIV response
Come next week, the Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) will host a regional meeting to provide guidance to the implementation of a...
Leptospirosis suspected as cause of death, illness in Matthew’s Ridge outbreak
While it is yet to be confirmed that the viral influenza-type outbreak among persons in Matthew's Ridge is that of leptospirosis, Public Health officials...
Swine flu outbreak refuted in wake of respiratory death, hospitalisation of Chinese nationals
Public Health Minister, Ms. Volda Lawrence, is refuting claims in some sections of the local media that the H1N1 virus (Swine Flu) is to...
TWO SEXUAL INFECTIONS YOU MAY NOT BE PAYING ATTENTION TO
Caused by bacteria, Chlamydia and Gonorrhea, are believed to be the most common sexually transmitted infections. What is particularly notable is that the large...
Incidence of TB on the decline – Min. Cummings
The incidence of tuberculosis (TB) is on the decline, says Minister within the Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Karen Cummings, and she recently disclosed...
