Twelve involved in TB treatment graduate as Community Healthcare Workers

By Stabroek News On In Guyana News |
Some of the workers. Dr Jeetendra Mohanlall is seated at left (Ministry of Health photo)
Some of the workers. Dr Jeetendra Mohanlall is seated at left (Ministry of Health photo)

Community health care in Guyana received a boost on Friday when a batch of twelve DOT (Direct Observed Treatment) officers from regions Three (Essequibo Islands/West Demerara) and Four (Demerara/Mahaica),

graduated as Community Healthcare Workers (CHW).

A Ministry of Health release on Friday stated that the graduation ceremony, which was held at Windjammer Conference Room in Kitty, Georgetown, was a collaboration between the Health Sciences Division of the Ministry of Health, and the National Tuberculosis Department of the Ministry of Health.