A team comprising four members from the University of Calgary and Baby Heart Foundation, has completed a visit to Guyana on plans for the establishment of Paediatric Surgical Care (PSC) at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
GINA said that the team leaders, Dr. Debra Isaac, Senior Heart Transplant Surgeon, Calgary University and Professor Kishan Narine, General Surgeon, Calgary University visited from January 19 to 22.
The release said that the purpose of the visit was to allow Dr. Rodrigo Soto, Paediatric Heart Transplant Surgeon, and Roy Glenn Morris, Biomedical Engineer, both of Baby Heart Foundation, to have a look at the local facilities, allowing them to evaluate the current capacity of the GPHC.
During their visit, they were given the opportunity to tour the GPHC and review patients, who were currently awaiting surgery. There are plans for the team to visit again, GINA said.
Baby Heart intends to begin these surgeries as early as June, 2015.
