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Thousands of Guyanese nurses, who left their homeland to work overseas for higher salaries, could begin returning to Guyana to take up lucrative job offers, President Irfaan Ali said on Wednesday night. He told his People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) campaign meeting for the September 1 general and regional elections, that once his party is ...

Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony on Monday dismissed a claim by A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) that the Charles Roza School of Nursing in Linden has been shuttered. “They’re repeating this as if it is true but it is not true,” Dr Anthony told Demerara Waves Online News. “It’s just annoying. You go up ...

Presidential candidate for A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), Aubrey Norton on Sunday assured residents of Linden that the electricity subsidy would not be scrapped. “We saying to you that wouldn’t happen under us. We want to see Linden progress,” he told about 2,000 attendees at a campaign rally held outside the old Palm Tree ...

“The medical team, deployed through the Nigerian Technical Aid Corps (NTAC), includes 2 nephrologists, 2 anesthesiologists, and one orthopaedic specialist”

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As the Guyana government plans to embark on the “aggressive” recruitment of foreign nurses to work at several new hospitals that are being built across the country, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday said new conditions of employment would be put in place for Cuban doctors. “We’re recruiting people from around the world, not confined ...

He powered up his X-ray fluorescence analyzer — like a cross between a laser gun and a power tool — which emitted a beam that dislodges electrons, coaxing out chemical fingerprints, and pointed it at surface after surface. Doors, door jambs, walls, couches, windowsills, blinds, toys, siding strips, 150 or 200 shots in all.

There was a bit of lead paint, but hardly enough to explain blood lead levels of over 10 micrograms per deciliter. There was a lead-containing figurine, brought back as a souvenir from abroad, but it was high on a shelf, beyond the 1- and 3-year-old’s reach. When he got his other samples back from the lab — water from the tap, sand from the play pit, a dust wipe from the father’s shoes — those were negative, too. “In the meantime,” said Alan Honeycutt, a regional environmental health specialist at the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, “both children’s blood lead had gone higher.”

To him, that pointed toward something in their diets  — and it was his colleague at the local level who suggested the parents keep a food log. Within 72 hours, the mother called to say there was something she’d forgotten to mention: the applesauce packets her kids ate every day.

So began an investigation that would reveal 566 lead-poisoned children across 44 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, D.C., and would eventually get the adulterated applesauce off shelves. But in late April, when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a paper on how that nationwide sleuthing went down, its fine print left a key detail out. At least six of the authors who’d worked at the CDC had been laid off earlier that month, when their entire division was slashed by the Trump administration’s cuts. In a way, the paper was a record of what had been lost, of what might not happen if a food product were poisoning kids right now. 

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