Health
UN urges the world to ready for extreme heat risk from El Niño
GENEVA, June 2 (Reuters) – The United Nations weather agency forecast on Tuesday a moderate or possibly a strong El Niño that could drive up global temperatures and increase the risk of extreme weather over the coming months. El Niño is a periodic warming of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, which typically lasts...
Guyana prepares for historic robotic surgery as healthcare enters new era
Guyana is preparing to make medical history with what could become the longest-distance robotic cardiac surgery ever performed. President Irfaan...
Caribbean eating too much salt as hypertension, heart disease surge — CARPHA warns
The Caribbean Public Health Agency, CARPHA, is sounding the alarm over dangerously high salt consumption across the region, warning that...
Hundreds benefit from medical outreach at Sister’s Village
The Hindu Parishad Seva Group of the Guyana Pandits’ Council has completed yet another successful Medical Outreach at the Saraswati...
Health Ministry to launch anti-malaria campaign next month
The Vector Control Services (VCS) at the Ministry of Public Health will be embarking on an anti-malaria campaign in four...
Former sports journalist battling mysterious illness
By Devina Samaroo Sports enthusiast, Rene Stoby was forced to shelf his journalistic career after he was gripped with an...
Guyana Pandits’ Council focuses on Mental Health
In observance of Mental Health Awareness Week 2018, the youth arm of the Guyana Pandits’ Council, the Yuvaa Shakti Sangh...
$27M Health Centre being constructed in Eccles
For the first time, residents of Eccles, East Bank Demerara will benefit from a Health Centre, which is expected to...
Gold Board lab to shut down amid mercury threat
Following a scathing statement from the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) for a more “complete and verifiable” solution to the...
Reg.7 assures that expired drugs not dispensed to residents
Faced with the challenge of receiving drugs with a short shelf-life, concerns were raised before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC)...
Team of Experts appointed to review Gold Board’s Laboratory Operations
As a result of recent incidents of elevated mercury emissions within the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission’s compound and its...
Charity market flooded
The Region Two Democratic council is urging vendors at the Charity Market to desist from littering as this practice clog...
GWI disinfects Tapakuma Well after 15 affected by Typhoid
Following reports that some residents of Tapakuma, Region 2, have contracted Typhoid, the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) helped the community...
Skeldon Hospital A&E staff ends sit-in over drug shortage
Physicians at the Skeldon Hospital’s Accident and Emergency (A&E) department returned to work on Monday afternoon following a sit-in over...
Specialists undergoing training to tackle alcohol, substance abuse
The Public Health Ministry’s Mental Health Unit is training 35 persons to better tackle the growing problem of substance and...
Lawrence orders removal of expired drugs at West Dem
Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence has instructed that the years-old expired drugs at the West Demerara Hospital be removed...
US$4.1M to upgrade five hospitals
By Devina Samaroo An estimated US$4.1 million is earmarked under a United Kingdom (UK) – funded initiative to retrofit five...
Gov’t working with US to reverse Fish ban
Minister of State, Joseph Harmon says that the Ministry of Agriculture is working closely with the authorities in the United...
$19.4M Machine acquired to improve blood transfusion service
The Georgetown Public Hospital will now be in a better position to provide emergency blood transfusion, as the National Blood...
No case of measles in Region One – Health Ministry
After visiting more than a dozen villages over two days, a team of health workers from the Ministry of Health...
Palms outfitted with $18M Infirmary and Outpatient Clinic
Residents of the Palms Geriatric Home will no longer have to be referred to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation for...
