The USAID/Guyana Safe Injection Project (USAID/GSIP) is marking its imminent closure with a meeting today aimed at “Sustaining Successes in Injection Safety’.
In a press release USAID said in support of this theme the meeting will feature presentations from the Ministry of Health and other partners that have been collaborating with GSIP on how they plan to sustain the project’s momentum forward. Health Minister Dr Bheri Ramsaran will be delivering the keynote address while US Charge d’Affaires Thomas Pierce will be making opening remarks.
The USAID/GSIP is a 12-month project funded by USAID and implemented by Initiatives Inc. It started in September 2011 and aimed to promote comprehensive, sustainable, country-owned managed infection prevention and injection safety programmes in order to safeguard health care workers, patients and communities.
USAID/GSIP activities sought to engage all stakeholders – patients, providers and the community – to ensure that injections are used appropriately and needles and other sharps are disposed of safely. GSIP’s activities were focused on four key programme areas: Safe and Appropriate Injection Use, Worker Protection, Waste Protection, Waste Management and Quality Assurance and Improvement.
The meeting is being held at the Cara Lodge Hotel from 9am-11am.
