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...
Teacher dies at NA hospital during ‘c-section’; newborn in stable condition
The authorities are investigating the death of 22-year-old Jacinth Muhammed Osborne, a teacher, who died on September 30th while undergoing...
Four more die from COVID; 242 new cases recorded
Guyana recorded four additional COVID-19 deaths between October 2nd and September 29; two deaths were recorded on October 01 and...
Russia sees no hurdles for WHO approval of Sputnik V vaccine
(Reuters) – All the barriers to register Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine with the World Health Organization (WHO) have been...
‘Fundamentally wrong’ to revaccinate people among global shortage of vaccines – Health Minister
Minister of Health Dr. Frank Anthony says it is fundamentally wrong to revaccinate someone who is already fully vaccinated and...
Free radiation therapy, mammograms for women through $5M donation to Cancer Foundation
Medically uninsured and low-income women will now have greater access to free radiation therapy and mammograms services made possible through...
Reg. 10 lagging way behind in COVID-19 vaccination rollout
The gap between the number of people vaccinated in most regions of Guyana and Region 10 has significantly widened since...
167 COVID deaths in 30 days, 228 new cases recorded in 24hrs
September’s COVID-19 death toll has increased to 167 after six more people died between September 26 – 30, the Ministry...
No official word yet on which vaccines will be accepted by U.S
There has been no official word on which COVID-19 vaccines will be accepted by the United States (US) come November...
COVID-19: Delta variant ripping through C’bean; Guyana urges unified response
Despite the availability of a variety of vaccines, many Caribbean countries are a seeing higher number of infections and deaths...
Employers required to implement vaccine requirements, other measures
The updated COVID-19 Emergency Measures (No. 23) have explicitly stated that every employer in the public and private sector shall...
COVID-19: Three more unvaccinated people die, 189 people infected
A total of 161 COVID-19 deaths have been reported this month following the death of another three people over the...
COVID-19: More than 6,000 get second doses in one day
A total of 6,655 adults were able to get the second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, with a...
100,000 Pfizer vaccines expected from COVAX next week
Guyana is expected to receive 100,000 doses of the US-made Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX facility on October 4,...
‘Best hospital experience’ – COVID survivor says Ocean View facility like a ‘five-star hotel’
By Kurt Campbell kurt@newsroom.gy A Guyanese mother of six, who survived COVID-19 and was nursed back to health over a...
‘There’s no medical need’ – PAHO does not recommend revaccination
By Vishani Ragobeer vishani@newsroom.gy Though some countries will only be accepting travellers who are fully vaccinated with specific COVID-19 vaccines...
COVID-19: Boy, 17, had anemia, kidney disease & suffered a heart attack
The 17-year-old boy from Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara), who is among Guyana’s latest reported COVID-19 deaths, had several underlying...
Boy, 17, among five COVID-19 deaths; 279 new cases
Guyana’s COVID-19 death toll has increased to 783 with the addition of five new deaths, the Ministry of Health reported...
Gov’t halts administration of first dose AstraZeneca
The government has halted the administration of the first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, Minister of Health Dr Frank...
