CDC, Rotary Guyana receive over $60M from Stabroek Block partners to aid Guyana’s fight...
The Civil Defence Commission (CDC), Salvation Army and Rotary Guyana have received more than $60 million to support COVID-19 relief programmes.
The funds were provided...
New $45M health administrative building, training centre for Lethem commissioned
A spanking new health administrative building and training centre costing approximately $45 million was commissioned in Lethem, Region Nine on Saturday.
The building which was...
GPHC’s Accident & Emergency Unit reduces waiting time to 1 hr 4 mins
The Georgetown Public Hospital's Accident and Emergency Unit (A&E) has successfully reduced patient waiting times, while experiencing a rise in patient referrals in 2023....
COVID-19 situation in Moruca now contained – RHO
(Department of Public Information, July 24 2020) - The COVID-19 situation in Moruca is improving as health officials have managed to contain the spread...
Education Ministry employing several techniques to identify, effectively respond to varying learning disabilities
Dear Editor,
I am writing to clarify a critical distinction that is frequently misunderstood: the distinction between Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD) and intellectual disabilities (ID)....
GT Mayor defends decision to consult Govt., business community before implementing lockdown
Even though he has come in for much criticism for saying that the city would not be placed on a lockdown, Mayor of Georgetown...
COVID-19: UN calls on Guyana to introduce urgent stringent measures
The United Nations (UN) has expressed concerns that social gatherings are continuing in Guyana, despite advisories against it as the world continues to grapple...
Guyana joins efforts to stamp out stigma and discrimination against lepers
“Zero discrimination against those affected by leprosy,” is the appeal being made by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other organisations dedicated to the...
Over 3,200 individuals to be trained in medical programmes
The government plans to train over 3,200 more individualsin several medical programmes this year to improve healthcare service delivery nationwide.
Some $852 million has been...
National Suicide Prevention Commission on the cards with passage of bill
The Ministry of Health’s ‘comprehensive and transformational’ Suicide Prevention Bill 2022 was on Monday passed in the National Assembly, enacting the decriminalisation of suicide...
