HealthCaribbean
Weekend edition 2021-07-01
HealthCaribbean Weekend is a weekly PHC Health Newsletter published on Thursdays which depicts current happenings in the Caribbean Healthcare Sector, of interest to healthcare providers, investors & suppliers.
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Dr Dukhi performs Guyana’s first paediatric brain aneurysm surgery
Neurosurgeon Dr Amarnauth Dukhi continues to perform groundbreaking procedures in Guyana in an effort to enhance the surgical landscape. This time round, he broke new surgical ground by performing …
GPHC hopes to establish ‘eye bank’ after organ transplant legislation is passed
By Vishani RagobeerThe Ophthalmology department of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), headed by Dr. Shailendra Sugrim, will be seeking to establish an “eye bank” where it can store human tissues needed for eye surgeries, once the org
Grenadian doctor, son, in Guyana for country’s first int’l kidney transplant
Doctors attached to the Georgetown Public Hospital’s Nephrology and Kidney Transplant Department will on Monday, June 14, mark a milestone as the team is set to perform its first operation on a patient from outside of Guyana.Unable to access the serv
PAHO confirms Brazil ‘P.1’ COVID-19 variant in Guyana
By Vishani RagobeerAdvisor on emerging viral diseases at the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Jairo Mendez-Rico, has confirmed that the P.1 variant of the SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is indeed present in Guyana.During a we
Guyana’s vaccination rate higher than Caribbean- Health Minister
Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony on Monday said if Guyana had followed other Caribbean countries in depending on the COVAX facility to acquire vaccines, only about 10 percent of the adult populati…
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