Food and Drug Dept. issues alert for fake Daflon tablets
An alert has been issued by the Government Analyst –Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) for fake Daflon brand tablets currently being circulated on the...
Health In Focus With Dr. Zulfikar Bux
As we continue our dialogue on various health issues permit me to bring to the fore the issue of Anxiety Disorder. This condition, which...
New Nurses and Midwife Act must be backed by hiked salaries – Min. Lawrence
The passage of the Nurses and Midwife legislation this week to better protect the rights of both professionals alike must be backed by a...
Blood Bank faces dire shortage, urges public to donate
There is currently a high demand for all blood types at the Ministry of Public Health’s Blood Bank – the National Blood Transfusion Services...
Health In Focus With Dr. Zulfikar Bux
Ignorance is usually a major shortcoming when it comes to health care. For this very reason I will seek to use this column to...
Chinese brigade plugs $28M into GPHC
With a sizeable donation valuing just over $28M, the delivery of health care at the country’s premier health facility – the Georgetown Public Hospital...
US-based Foundation Continues To Lend Support To GPHC For Corneal Transplants
A legacy which was kicked into motion by a business mogul a few years ago continued throughout this past year and is slated to...
Coconut water – a beverage laden with health benefits; but, be sure to...
While there is hardly any drink that can rival a good purified glass of H2O , there is another natural beverage that has been...
Caribbean family planning associations’ skills boosted in disaster risk reduction
Caribbean islands are among the most vulnerable to climate change impacts and are threatened by extreme weather patterns with hurricanes, earthquakes, flooding, volcanoes, droughts...
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 –...
