The Canada-funded `Strengthening Justice for Women, Girls, and Indigenous Peoples in Guyana project’, implemented by the Justice Education Society (JES), recently hosted training for 26 medical professionals on the proper use of sexual assault evidence collection kits, which were donated by the project to the Ministry of Health in February of this year.
A statement from the High Commission of Canada to Guyana and Suriname said that the donation, totaling 300 kits, will be utilized by medical professionals to support the work of the Guyana Police Force in addressing sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in Guyana. Training in the proper use of these kits is vital to ensuring that the evidence collected can be admissible in court, the statement said.