2024 Budget: Mobile app to improve care for diabetes patients; HIV among 11 diseases...
The Diabetes Comprehensive Centre at Lusignan will soon be rolling out a mobile app to monitor patients’ nutrition, exercise and other lifestyle data. The...
India, population 1.3 billion, orders ‘complete’ coronavirus lockdown
New Delhi (CNN) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered a "complete" lockdown for India's 1.3 billion people on Tuesday, warning that "many families will be destroyed...
Over $3.7M in PPEs donated to Ministry of Education
The Ministry of Education on Friday received a quantity of Personal Protective Equipment from Logistics Gy Express Inc., valued at $3,790,000.
Permanent Secretary, Mr. Alfred...
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...
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...
COVID-19: 1759 households in 25 communities benefit from relief distribution
As the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) continues to work to bring relief to citizens and communities, which have been affected by the Ministry of...
Primary healthcare doctors being trained in area of mental illness to offset psychologist shortage
With a dearth in psychologists and psychiatric professionals in the country, Primary healthcare doctors are being trained to detect and treat persons suffering from...
COVID-19 Update: Guyana records another COVID-19 case; eight cases confirmed in two days
Director of Primary Health Care Services, Dr. Ertenisa Hamilton, reported today that Guyana has recorded another COVID-19 case; taking the total number of cases...
Message from Health Minister on Int’l Day of Persons With Disabilities
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Theme: “Building Back Better: Toward a disability-inclusive, accessible and sustainable post-COVID-19 world”
Guyana is joining with the international community to once again...
PANCAP youth meeting to draft tactical HIV response roadmap
Set for July 30–August 2, 2019, the Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), the mechanism that provides a structured and unified approach...
