Health
Guyana advances towards a world-class organ donation, transplant system
In an effort to strengthen Guyana’s healthcare capabilities and improve patient outcomes, the Ministry of Health has launched a 31-month Initiative to build a sustainable, resilient and internationally aligned organ donation and transplantation system. Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony, met with a delegation from the Donation and Transplantation Institute (DTI Foundation), the Human Organ...
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...
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...
With five more COVID deaths, Guyana surpasses 1,100 fatalities
Guyana has recorded a total of 1,101 COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic in March, 2020 and five...
Health Ministry to stop issuing COVID clearance forms – Dr. Anthony
The Ministry of Health will no longer issue COVID-19 clearance or discharge forms to individuals who recovered from the disease...
Only hospitalised, high-risk people will now be given PCR COVID test – Health Minister
The Minister of Health Dr. Frank Anthony on Tuesday announced that the Health Ministry will only provide PCR COVID-19 tests...
Patient with rare cervical cancer hopes for cure
By Isanella Patoir isanella@newsroom.gy Despite years of severe symptoms that doctors continuously misdiagnosed for kidney stones, hormonal imbalance and urinary...
Health Ministry not underestimating Omicron wave – Dr. Anthony
There are now more than 11,000 active cases across the country after hundreds of people are being infected with the...
Over 11,000 active COVID cases; another death & almost 900 new infections
An 87-year-old man from Region Four (Demerara -Mahaica) has died from COVID-19, taking Guyana’s overall death toll since March 2020...
Three children who died from COVID succumbed before reaching hospitals
Over the past few days, there have been four reported paediatric (children) COVID-19 deaths and the health authorities are investigating...
‘Not standard procedure’ – Health Minister apologises after father fetched child to burial ground
After photographs surfaced on Facebook that a man in Region One (Barima- Waini) fetched his dead child from the Mabaruma...
Two children among 9 more COVID deaths; 1,082 new cases
Two more children – a six-year-old girl and a three-month-old baby girl have died from the dreaded coronavirus. They are...
What’s the other symptom of COVID-19? Stigma
By Fareeza Haniff fareeza@newsroom.gy I never thought I was immune to contracting COVID-19 having reported and read the plethora of...
No vaccines given to baby who died in Reg. 6 – RHO
A four-month-old baby, who was rushed to the Skeldon hospital in Region Six (East Berbice- Corentyne) on Friday, has died...
COVID-19: 3-Y-0 boy among five more deaths; 1,065 new cases
A three-year-old boy of Region Four who died on January 9 is among five new COVID-19 deaths recorded on Saturday,...
Guyana gets 28,800 doses of Johnson and Johnson COVID vaccines
Guyana on Friday received a donation of 28, 800 doses of the Janssen Johnson and Johnson vaccines from the Government...
COVID-19: 14-mth-old boy among six new deaths; 865 new infections
Guyana’s COVID-19 death toll has increased to 1,081 with the addition of six new deaths, the Ministry of Health reported...
Full vaccination plus booster shots needed to combat Omicron surge – Dr. Anthony
With the new Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus continuing to infect hundreds of people daily, the Minister of Health...
Digital vaccine card system should be ready in early 2022 – Health Minister
About five months after he announced that the local health authorities were moving towards digital COVID-19 vaccine cards, Minister of...
COVID-19: Nearly 8,500 in home isolation; 13 in ICU
Guyana has broken its own record for the amount of COVID-19 infections recorded in one day; this time, 1,186 new...
Nearly 1,200 COVID cases recorded in 24-hrs; samples not yet sent to confirm Omicron variant
The number of active COVID-19 cases has increased to 8,680 after a total of 1,186 people tested positive within a...
