President Irfaan Ali yesterday met with a team from the New York-based Mount Sinai Health System at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre and discussed modernisation of the local system.
The Department of Public Information (DPI) said that Ali was joined by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo and Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony.
The visiting delegation included Mount Sinai international President Szabolcs Dorotovics; Senior Vice President of Medical Affairs Richard Amiraian; Executive Vice President Arthur A. Klein, and Manager Amar Dhanraj.
After the meeting, DPI said that Dr Klein stated that healthcare would be key as Guyana continues to develop.
“One of the most sophisticated investments the country needs to make in its people is healthcare and we are here to work with the president in defining a plan in development of more sophisticated healthcare, also healthcare access improvement. What we can do not only in Georgetown but in the rest of the country.”
Klein noted that both parties were enthusiastic about the collaboration.
“I think we all walked away with the President’s enthusiasm with working with us. I think he walked away with our enthusiasm with working with him and we both walked away with the sense that there is a lot of work to do.”
In NY, the hospital network is structured around eight hospital campuses and includes more than 6,600 primary and specialty care physicians and 13 ambulatory surgical centres, DPI said.
