With a focus on its physicians being trained in tropical medicine to better able serve Guyanese specifically living in New York, US, Northwell Health—that state’s largest health care provider—has dispatched its first batch of medical residents to Guyana to work at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
This is according to a press release from Northwell Health which said that the medical partnership is an initiative to have the residents rotate at the public hospital to enhance care and develop cultural understanding and training in tropical medicine.
The release said that the partnership aims to address disparities in Guyana, by supporting and enhancing a variety of services, which conversely seeks to address disparities in New York by broadening cross-cultural understanding with the communities of Little Guyana in Queens – as well as surrounding neighbourhoods that make up the fifth largest immigrant population in the city of New York.