The US Embassy’s Humanitarian Assistance Programme (HAP) has conducted training related to first aid and trauma care for staff attached to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital as well as the regional health department.
The health education class was held on Wednesday in the boardroom of the Regional Health Authority’s offices.
Programme Coordinator, Josh Oppenheim, said the aim of the training session was to teach first aid and trauma care to interested persons. “So really helping to provide that emergency care if someone gets in a car accident or if there is a very dangerous situation, this is to provide that knowledge.”
According to Oppenheim, a non-profit organisation in Corriverton along with regional health officials reached out to them “and they all expressed interest in a class and we also brought some humanitarian assistance.”
Oppenheim noted that similar training classes were also done in Port Mourant, Corriverton, Linden, Port Kaituma, and areas in Georgetown. “A lot of people seem very curious and thirsty for the knowledge to provide this care,” he observed.
He also informed that there is an open invitation to anyone interested in benefiting from the training.
Meanwhile, Sharir Chan, Chief Operations Officer of Guyana Medical Relief – a US-based non-profit organisation, in collaboration with HAP – handed over a quantity of medical supplies to the Regional Health Officer, Dr Vishalya Sharma. “In terms of today’s donation it includes some cancer medication and some other stuff for the physical therapy department for the Port Mourant Hospital,” Chan noted.
The Guyana Medical Relief has been donating medical supplies to various medical facilities in Guyana for the past thirty years.
