The 154-year-old Psychiatric Hospital, Berbice would be closed eventually, and provision made to accommodate mentally ill patients at a new New Amsterdam Hospital that would be constructed, Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony said.l “Over time, the current facilities that we have in New Amsterdam, we’ll be closing those facilities,” he told the opening of a ...

The number of street dwellers in commercial Georgetown has been reduced significantly and a number of them have been trained and employed, according to Minister of Human Services and Social Security Dr Vindhya Persaud. “Some people don’t like to abide by the rules. Some people like the street kind of conditions and some people refuse ...

The University of Guyana (UG) on Tuesday formally announced the establishment of a not-for-profit biodiversity research centre in the Essequibo River near the Mazaruni and Cuyuni rivers with an assurance by the British non-governmental organisation that the aim is not to export scientific information from the area. Co-founder of the Sophia Point Rainforest Research Institute, ...

STATEN ISLAND, New York City (WABC) — It’s been three long months of surgeries, skin grafts, physical rehabilitation, and grief counseling. But Monday, three months to the day of a fatal fire that claimed the lives of 20 students in a girl’s dormitory in Guyana, the most critically burned patient will be discharged. Mariza Williams was ...

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Guyana has agreed to go ahead with the next step of China’s physical infrastructure-centered Belt and Road Initiative, according to a joint statement issued by the two countries to mark the end of President Irfaan Ali’s one-week official visit to that Asian giant. “The Guyana side expressed willingness to discuss and conclude the Joint Action ...

HCC is pleased to share this new resource: Advancing Universal Health Coverage in Caribbean Small Island Developing States – HCC Advocacy Priorities for the 2023 UN High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage. Building on the HCC. First United Nations High-level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage. Technical brief for Caribbean countries – a contribution from civil society developed in 2019, the HCC is again seeking to contribute to advances in UHC in the Caribbean region by providing updated Advocacy Priorities and Advocacy Asks for the Second UNGA HLM on UHC, taking into consideration developments since 2019. The Second UNGA HLM on UHC is scheduled for 21 September 2023.

This Second HLM on UHC provides yet another opportunity for UN Member States, including small developing states in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), to agree on actions to reduce health inequities—differences in health outcomes among individuals and groups that are unjust, unfair, and avoidable—and leave no one behind as they make progress in sustainable development and in their obligations to respect, protect, and fulfill the right to health and other human rights.

The 2023 HCC Advocacy Priorities and Asks are aimed at supporting civil society UHC advocacy in lead up to and post the High Level Meeting. They have also been presented for review, discussion, and consideration by CARICOM Heads of State and Government, Ministers of Health, and Ministers of Foreign Affairs; CARICOM Permanent Missions in New York and Geneva that will participate in the negotiations to develop the Political Declaration of the Second HLM on UHC; government sectors including, and outside of, health; civil society organisations; and other key stakeholders in CARICOM Member States, particularly those working in NCD prevention and control.

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Preparations are underway for the construction of a modern waste water treatment plant for Georgetown and bring an end to the dumping of that type of waste into the Demerara River and Atlantic sea, Minister of Housing and Water Collin Croal said Saturday. He said the US$36 million effluent treatment plant, which would probably be ...