Hydromet sounds alarm over hotter, drier months ahead
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Guyana Hydrometeorological Service is warning citizens to prepare for hotter-than-normal conditions, as El Niño strengthens and the country moves…
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Family seeks answers after 14-year-old girl dies hours after hospital admission
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe family of a 14-year-old Corentyne schoolgirl is demanding answers following her sudden death at the Number 75 Regional Hospital…
Young people risk heart attacks, strokes through vaping habit – cardiologist
Reading Time: 2 minutesProminent Guyanese cardiologist Dr. Mahendra Carpen is warning that vaping could be placing a growing number of young people at…
Generic version of Ozempic to enter Guyana
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA generic version of Ozempic could become available on the Guyanese market within the next two months, according to Minister…
Health Minister commissions ‘transformative’ upgrades at Port Kaituma Hospital
Reading Time: 2 minutesMinister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, officially commissioned a suite of major infrastructural upgrades at the Port Kaituma Hospital in…
Health Ministry launches Vaccination Week, warns against rising vaccine misinformation
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Ministry of Health (MoH) has launched Vaccination Week in the Americas in partnership with the Pan American Health Organization/World…
Doobay Medical commissions eye clinic to provide affordable vision care for Guyanese
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Doobay Medical and Research Centre, on Tuesday commissioned the Latchmin Kissoon and Family Eye Clinic at the centre located…
Bartica Regional Hospital to be completed in 24 months
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Ministry of Health on Saturday moved ahead with plans for a new regional hospital in Bartica, marking the occasion…
Boy, 12, dies before funds could be secured for overseas surgery
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwelve-year-old Marlon Jupiter, whose battle with an aggressive form of blood cancer prompted a public fundraising appeal for urgent overseas…
Dr. Anthony calls for renewed commitment to end AIDS in the Caribbean
Reading Time: 2 minutesMinister of Health and Chair of the PANCAP Executive Board and CARICOM COHSOD (Health), Dr. Frank Anthony, is in Trinidad…