Health officials on Coronavirus alert; to meet on Friday to plan course of action...
By Suraj Narine
Health Ministry officials are expected to meet on Friday to plan a course of action to further strengthen surveillance at Guyana’s ports...
GPL’s field staff for meter reading, other delivery services not operational until April
In recognition of the risks associated with the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL ) has initiated temporary modifications to...
Medical Council still awaiting report from GPHC on death of young cancer patients
Although the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has been able to link the actions of medical practitioners to the untimely demise of three young...
COVID-19: Death count reaches 507 with latest fatality; 77 new cases recorded
The COVID-19 death count is now 507 with one more person succumbing to the virus yesterday. The latest fatality is a 73-year-old, Region Four...
79 year-old is latest COVID-19 fatality; death toll now 1055
The Ministry of Health reported today that it recorded another death from the Coronavirus pandemic. The latest fatality is a 79-year-old woman from East...
SASOD’s Joel Simpson laments the underutilization of life-saving drug
Government-subsidized Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV/AIDS is being underutilized by the populace. This, for the most part, is owed to the lack of awareness,...
NBTS implements measures to make transfusions safer
Pregnant women can now rest easy that they could have access to safer blood compliments to measures implemented by National Blood Transfusion...
Balwant Singh Hospital Takes Gov’t To Task Over Denial Of Drugs Import
Following the denial by the Ministry of Public Health of the importation of certain drugs manufactured in India, the Dr. Balwant Singh Hospital has...
Region Nine Health workers better equipped to eliminate maternal, child deaths
Community Health Workers (CHW) from various communities in Region Nine, recently received toolkits for improved antenatal care as the Ministry of Public Health continues...
Medical Centre to drop dialysis cost from 2019
In what it calls “a gesture of goodwill and care”, the Doobay Medical Research Centre will be reducing the cost of accessing dialysis –...
