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...
Construction moving apace on Paediatric & Maternal Hospital at Ogle
Construction of the Guyana Paediatric and Maternal Hospital, at Ogle, East Coast Demerara, is moving apace and Health Minister Dr...
Construction of ‘world-class’ US$161M New Amsterdam Hospital to start in March
President Dr Irfaan Ali and other officials on Sunday turned the sod for the construction of a state-of-the-art world-class New...
Significant progress on new Diamond Hospital, year-end deadline possible
The construction of the new Diamond Hospital, which will house 75 beds for patients and modern equipment for optimized services,...
Guyana recorded 15 maternal deaths this year, one case being probed
A day after the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) announced that it recorded 10 maternal deaths this year, Health Minister...
Health Minister: Vaccines & testing kits available but people don’t see COVID as a threat anymore
With a new variant of the deadly coronavirus, JN.1, leading to an increase in cases around the world, Guyana’s Minister...
Worker shortages: Cuban nurses being recruited, Health Ministry trying to reduce nursing workload
There is a shortage of nurses locally but Minister of Health Dr. Frank Anthony said about 80 Cuban nurses were...
Lip repairs added to advanced surgeries now available at GPHC
Lip and palate repairs joined the list of surgical procedures available at the country’s main referral hospital this year, the...
10 maternal deaths at GPHC this year; 303 critically ill women saved
There were 10 maternal deaths recorded at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), Guyana’s main referral hospital, for the year...
Patient care at GPHC under strain after 146 nurses resigned in 2023
A total of 146 nurses resigned from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) in 2023, an unfortunate situation that significantly...
GDF airlifts hinterland infants with breathing complications to G/town
Ranks of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) on Sunday carried out two successful medical evacuations for an eight-month-old boy and...
Low HPV vaccine uptake: Health Ministry to undertake robust education campaign
Eleven years after the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine to prevent cervical cancer was introduced in Guyana, its low uptake...
House approves $3.6B to fast-track healthcare infrastructure
Guyana’s health sector will continue to see massive expansion with the injection of additional funds to transform infrastructure to enhance...
Massive tumour removed from E/bo woman
See below full release from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC): In a remarkable medical feat, a 44-year-old female patient...
Campbellville, Enmore health centres get cutting-edge dental equipment
The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) recently invested in cutting-edge equipment which were given to the Campbellville Health Centre and...
‘Early action’ needed to promote mental wellbeing – UNICEF rep.
Mental health is critical to ensuring people live fulfilling lives, as such, country representative of the United Nations Children’s Fund...
GPHC doctors to get orthopedic, plastic surgery training
Doctors and healthcare providers have to constantly train to keep up with the latest techniques in science, and several surgeons...
Girl, 7, gets kidney from dad for life-saving transplant surgery
By Lazeena Yearwood lazeena@newsroom.gy Angelica Soamnauth, a seven-year-old from Stewartville, West Coast Demerara, lived an unconventional life due to a...
18 doctors at GPHC better equipped to treat hernias
Local surgeons and anesthetists attached at the Georgetown Public Hospital upskilled their knowledge of hernia treatments as part of a...
