Seven overseas-based Guyanese medical specialists and surgeons attached to a New Jersey-based outreach organisation hosted a free clinic and conducted 39 surgeries during a week-long exercise at the West Demerara Regional Hospital.
According to a press release, the exercise was hosted by the Fyrish, Gibraltar, Courtland Overseas Support Group and was led by Fyrish, Corentyne born Dr James Cort. Dr Cort, a specialist in internal medicine, has been travelling here twice per year over the past four years to host free clinics for adults and children in Berbice. He returns to Fyrish in April and October every year accompanied by colleagues from the East Orange, Beth Israel, St Barnabas and Clara Mass medical centres and others based in boroughs in the US Tri-State area.
In October, Cort was accompanied by a specialist team attached to the 15-year-old Caribbean Medical Association (CMA) under the leadership of General Practitioner Dr Berman Saunders, who is