The US Embassy on Monday presented 1,000 medical utility kits and a number of other items to the Ministry of Health to boost the service it provides at hospitals and health centres.
According to a Government Information Agency (GINA) press release Charge d’Affaires at the United States Embassy, Thomas Pierce presented the items to Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy at the ministry’s Materials Management Unit in Kingston.
The medical items were made available via the Embassy’s Humanitarian Assistance Programme. They also included examination tables and 1000 medical utility kits. The items are needed and can be utilized immediately in hospitals and health centres. This will effect the replacement of 1500 existing beds as more than half of the beds at these institutions are not hospital beds.
Two of the best functioning health centres in Guyana are the Sophia and East La Penitence health centres both of which are results of partnerships with the Government of Guyana and the United States of America’s Military horizon programme. “Over the past six years we have been working together to create a stronger sustainable health system in Guyana that will not only fight and win the battle against HIV/AIDS, but will also reinforce the efforts of Guyanese medical personnel in their daily duties,” Pierce said.
