Gov’t donates tablet computers to COVID-19 patients at GPHC
Government has donated 20 tablet computers to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) to be used by COVID-19 patients in the Isolation Intensive Care...
Hinterland residents to benefit from 20 telemedicine sites by month end
In keeping with its commitment to improve the delivery of healthcare services in remote communities, government has announced that some 20 telemedicine sites will...
More than 4,700 children infected with COVID-19 since 2020
Some 4,766 children were infected with COVID-19 since Guyana confirmed its first imported case back in March 2020. With Guyana confirming 37,613 cases since...
Decreased recovery time, reduced infections from surgeries when laparoscopic suite is added to New...
Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony says the New Amsterdam Hospital will be outfitted with a laparoscopic suite for the conduct of minimally invasive...
COVID-19 mobile testing units to visit Harmonie, South Ruimveldt next week
COVID-19 mobile testing units will be making their way to La Parfaite Harmonie on the West Bank of Demerara and South Ruimveldt, Georgetown, next...
Govt. to roll out early screening programme for breast, cervical cancer
Advisor to the Ministry of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy recently disclosed that a Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) testing programme for women, ages 30 and...
With 107 cases last year, Health Ministry moves to launch “aggressive” prostate cancer campaign...
With prostate cancer on the rise in Guyana, the country’s Health Ministry will be collaborating with a local non-governmental organization to launch a special...
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...
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...
57 percent of HIV patients fully vaccinated against COVID-19 – Minister Anthony
Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony is encouraging people infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) across the country, to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Speaking...
