Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony yesterday said the order of vaccines for persons exposed to the monkeypox viral disease that the ministry has been able to procure is expected to be shipped into the country by the end of September.
Addressing the subject during his daily COVID-19 update on Wednesday, Anthony noted that there is working ongoing on three different anti-retroviral treatments, which are in limited supply in the United States and being used under emergency use authorisation.
“So the medications that are currently used to suppress the virus [are] not readily available. But once it becomes available we will ensure we will have some of it available to patients here in Guyana but right now we can’t get access to it,” he said.