Medical Breakthrough… Precision Medicine – a tactical approach to treatment
Although we are all lumped into the single category of human beings, each of us have attributes that make us unique. It therefore stands...
Supplier was paid in full despite passing off used blood testing machines as new...
The Mabaruma District Hospital, Region One (Barima/Waini), is still awaiting the delivery of two haematology analysers, after it was discovered that the two previously...
Medical breakthrough… ‘A vaccine in testing to prevent ‘multiple’ cancers’
Medical experts often preach that “prevention is always better than cure”. Much of the time this translates to embracing healthy lifestyle choices,...
COVID Update: Three more succumb, death count now 1,073; 665 new cases reported
Three more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died. This takes the total number of deaths from the pandemic to...
COVID-19 shrinks Republic Bank’s profits by US$68M
Republic Financial Holdings Limited and its subsidiaries continue to feel the squeeze during the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, the company reported that for the nine...
Gov’t mulling training police officers, teachers to detect mental illnesses – Health minister
Added to the training being rolled out to primary healthcare workers, police and teachers may soon be among the groups of persons receiving professional...
PANCAP advocates for treatment continuity for people living with HIV/AIDS during COVID-19 pandemic
(PANCAP Coordinating Unit, CARICOM Secretariat): The Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), the mechanism that provides a structured and unified approach to the...
$4.4M in care packages sent to Guyanese medical students in Cuba
(DPI)- Guyanese medical students studying in Cuba are set to receive care packages from the Department of Public Service as the government continues to...
Over 350 benefit from CIOG, partners Kwakwani medical outreach
More than 350 residents of Kwakwani and other villages in Region 10 were able to access medical attention during an outreach last Sunday, hosted...
Ministry receives testing equipment to aid roll out of child health programme
Guyana's Ministry of Health today received a quantity of testing equipment and other medical materials as part of a consultancy facilitation between Mount Sinai...
