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...
T&T: No pay for unvaccinated public servants from mid-January
Trinidad Newsday – By mid-January, all public servants and employees at state agencies, including national security, will be required to...
Guyanese professor Prem Misir writes book on COVID-19 pandemic
Making yet another contribution to the literary world, Guyanese author and professor Dr. Prem Misir has written a new book...
66 new COVID cases; 11 in ICU
Guyana has recorded 66 new COVID-19 infections after conducting 1,372 tests, the Ministry of Health reported on Saturday. Guyana’s total...
Guyana receives 55,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines
Guyana today received 55,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines procured through support from Canada. The vaccines were received at...
Two more die from COVID; 23 new cases recorded
Guyana’s COVID-19 death toll has increased to 1,028 with the addition of two new deaths. Dead are an unvaccinated 49-year-old...
T&T denies entry to Guyanese family with mixed Pfizer/ Moderna vaccines
A Guyanese family living in Canada had their Christmas holiday plans quashed after they were denied entry into Trinidad and...
Persons willing to donate their organs will be part of national registry
All people who are willing to donate their organs for transplant to help improve the lives of other individuals or...
Unvaccinated man latest COVID death; 44 new cases
An unvaccinated 84-year-old man is the country’s latest COVID-19 death. The Ministry of Health reported that the man is from...
Guyana introduces legislation to allow for organ transplants
A national Human Organ and Tissue Transplant Agency could be established to manage the removal, donation and transfer of human...
Flooded Upper Pomeroon communities get much-needed relief supplies
On the direction of the Cabinet Task Force, the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) in collaboration with Regional Authorities of Pomeroon...
Omicron variant in at least three Caribbean countries
Though some countries are unable to test for the presence of variants of the novel coronavirus, the new Omicron variant...
Woman, 68, dies from COVID; 66 new cases recorded
An unvaccinated 68-year-old woman died from COVID-19 on Wednesday increasing the country’s death toll to 1,025. The Ministry of Health...
Flooded for days, Upper Pomeroon communities plead for help
By Isanella Patoir Isanella@newsroom.gy The communities of Karawab and St Monica in the Upper Pomeroon River of Region Two were...
Dialysis treatment now begins in Reg. 6 almost two years after centre was commissioned
Almost two years after the $6.2 million Regional Dialysis Centre in the New Amsterdam Hospital compound was commissioned, the dialysis...
Unvaccinated 18-year-old dies from COVID-19
The COVID-19 death toll in Guyana has increased to 1,024 with the addition of one new death – an unvaccinated...
Hospital denies claims woman who died from COVID did not receive proper care
The authorities have confirmed that a woman was tied to a bed at the COVID-19 hospital because she kept removing...
Three new COVID deaths, 12 in ICU
Guyana’s COVID-19 death toll has increased to 1,023 with three more deaths, the Ministry of Health reported on Monday. Those...
Omicron: Woman with COVID-19 boarded flight in NY and entered Trinidad with variant
(Trinidad Express) – Trinidad and Tobago has recorded its first case of the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus. This...
