Guyana, Brazil and PAHO launch cross-border vaccination programme
The Governments of Guyana and Brazil, in partnership with the Pan American Health Organisation/World Health Organisation (PAHO/WHO), have launched a cross-border vaccination programme to...
Guyana’s food and nutrition security under threat -Global Body warns
Guyana has made good progress in advancing its food and nutrition security agenda. In fact, it is one of only three CARICOM countries that...
Improved management of hypertension could save 420,000 lives each year in the Americas –...
In the run-up to World Hypertension Day (17 May), Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director, Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, has urged countries to intensify efforts...
Guyana records three more COVID-19 deaths; 108 new infections
Guyana has recorded three more COVID-19 fatalities, taking the death toll to 422.
These patients were admitted with COVID-19 like symptoms but died while receiving...
80 per cent recovery rate at Infectious Diseases Hospital
The Infectious Diseases Hospital at Liliendaal is seeing an 80 per cent recovery rate of patients infected with COVID-19.
This was revealed by Health Minister,...
National Anti-Narcotics Agency removes $20B worth of drugs from the streets-Report
The National Anti-Narcotics Agency has been able to successfully remove $20B worth of drugs from the streets during the year 2017. This was revealed...
More men contracting COVID-19 than women – CMO
The country’s Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dr Shamdeo Persaud says that most of the persons tested positive for COVID-19, to date, are males, with...
Ministry to introduce new, more efficient drug to fight filaria in 2019
In an effort to advance its Lymphatic Filariasis (filaria) fight, the Public Health Ministry has moved to include a third drug to its elimination...
COVID Update: Five more fatalities, 276 new cases recorded
Five more persons who tested positive for COVID-19, have died, taking the death count in Guyana to 1,176, the Ministry of Health has informed....
Guyana receives $US1M from Government of India for COVID-19 Response
The Government of Indian has allocated US$ 1,000,000 from the “Quick Impact Development Project” that is being implemented jointly by the Ministry of Health,...
