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...
Guyana needs at least 1,500 new healthcare workers in two years – Jagdeo
Several new hospitals will be opened across Guyana and the country’s Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo estimates that at least...
Over 400 benefit from medical outreach by Food for the Poor
See below full press release from Food For the Poor: Food for the Poor (Guy) Inc in collaboration with the...
Not relying on developed nations, Guyana in talks for vaccine-making plant
In a quest to access much-needed lifesaving vaccines without relying on supplies from developed countries, the Government of Guyana has reached out...
84 persons receive over $50M on first day of dialysis assistance distribution
A total of 84 hemodialysis patients on Tuesday received cheques valued at $600,000 each to help subsidise their treatment expenses,...
To reduce deaths, maternal waiting homes for Regions 7 & 8
In a bid to further reduce maternal deaths in hinterland regions, the Ministry of Health is seeking to build new...
Treatment soon for woman diagnosed with rare, incurable disease
Following a series of advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRIs), Stacyann Van Rossum, the single mother who lost her ability to...
Guyana eyes new vaccine manufacturing plant to ensure timely access to medication
In Guyana’s quest to improve healthcare, the government will soon establish a local pharmaceutical manufacturing plant to address the long...
With 17 pregnant women dying in 2022, Guyana taking steps to improve maternal care
By Vishani Ragobeer Vishani@newsroom.gy For years, health authorities in Guyana have been trying to prevent women from dying during their...
Increased employment, access to healthcare services could reduce suicide rate- PAHO study
Since 2000 the suicide mortality rate has been increasing in the Americas, a recent study by the Pan American Health...
Guyana building capacity to detect disease variants, reduce cost of organ transplant
Guyana is building its capacity to detect different disease variants and test DNA for organ transplants by utilising the genetic...
US medical team conducts 14 surgeries at GPHC
A total of 14 surgeries were done at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) by a United States medical team...
Ali in talks with Nobel Prize winner, cancer specialist on new medical school, council
A new Council of Science and Medicine is being developed and President Dr. Irfaan Ali held talks with Cancer Research...
11 COVID deaths since year started; Health Minister wants more children vaccinated
For the year so far, Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony said 11 people died after they were infected with the...
US military medical team starts outreach in Guyana
The United States’ Lesser Antilles Medical Assistance Team (LAMAT), in partnership with Guyana’s Ministry of Health, will conduct an exchange...
Neurosurgeon Dr Dukhi takes up Stacy’s case; gov’t to foot all expenses
Almost two weeks after Stacyann Van Rossum, a single mother of two, publicly shared that she has lost her ability...
Region Four man dies from COVID, nine new cases recorded
A 51-year-old man from Region Four died on February 13, 2023, after he was infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)...
Man, 67, dies from COVID
A 67-year-old man from Region Six (East Berbice- Corentyne) died on February 8 after he was infected with the novel...
Struggling single mother with walking disability seeks assistance for treatment abroad
By Lazeena Yearwood Lazeena@newsroom.gy Three years ago, 30-year-old Stacyann Van Rossum, a single mother of two young boys, lost her...
