Through its flagship Global Gateway Initiative strategy, the European Union (EU) has added health as a main area of focus alongside forest protection, in its assistance to this country and hopes to see Guyana in the near future producing pharmaceuticals to meet its own and regional and global needs.
“It fits with the bigger picture, the bigger policy objective of the government to really boost its health sector… For us this is a very important development. We have agreed that next to the forest sector, which is so far the only focal sector of the EU in Guyana, we will add another sector and that is health sector,” Head of the EU Delegation to Guyana, Ambassador René van Nes told reporters on Thursday at a press conference.
“So from now on, the EU will not only work in forest but we will work in health. We will focus on pharmaceuticals, but of course we can probably do more, so of course we are talking to the Minister of Health and other government officials on what is the best way that we do this,” he added.