Health – Demerara Waves Online News- Guyana

Former PNCR General Secretary recovering from serious illness

Longtime People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) member, Amna Ally on Monday appeared to be recovering from serious heart and kidney complications, well-placed sources said. Ms Ally, a former PNCR General Secretary who was recently embroiled in a public spat over her disappointment with party leader Aubrey Norton’s performance, has been hospitalised for the past two ...

Longtime People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) member, Amna Ally on Monday appeared to be recovering from serious heart and kidney complications, well-placed sources said. Ms Ally, a former PNCR General Secretary who was recently embroiled in a public spat over her disappointment with party leader Aubrey Norton’s performance, has been hospitalised for the past two ...

11 months 2 weeks ago

Health, News, Politics, Amna Ally, former PNCR General Secretary, Peoples National Congress Reform (PNCR)

Health – Demerara Waves Online News- Guyana

Govt ready to “bring in” doctors to ease backlog-President Ali

President Irfaan Ali on Friday announced that government was willing to “bring in” doctors to address a backlog of cases in the public health sector if those already in the system would be unable to do so. “If we have a backlog in a specific area, which are these areas and which areas will require ...

President Irfaan Ali on Friday announced that government was willing to “bring in” doctors to address a backlog of cases in the public health sector if those already in the system would be unable to do so. “If we have a backlog in a specific area, which are these areas and which areas will require ...

1 year 1 week ago

Education, Health, News, Politics

Health – Demerara Waves Online News- Guyana

Jagdeo, Norton in bitter row over recruitment of Bangladeshis, other foreign healthcare workers

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Thursday accused the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) administration of failing to pay healthcare workers more but was preparing to hire Bangladeshis and other foreign healthcare workers at higher salaries, but Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said they would be paid the same as Guyanese. “You cannot bring Bangladeshis, bring whoever ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Thursday accused the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) administration of failing to pay healthcare workers more but was preparing to hire Bangladeshis and other foreign healthcare workers at higher salaries, but Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said they would be paid the same as Guyanese. “You cannot bring Bangladeshis, bring whoever ...

1 year 2 weeks ago

Business, Health, News, Politics

Health – Demerara Waves Online News- Guyana

Chicken pox outbreak at Lusignan Prison; APNU+AFC, govt at odds over response

The Ministry of Health (MOH) on Tuesday confirmed that an outbreak of chicken pox at the Lusignan Prison has afflicted 53 prisoners at that East Coast Demerara penal institution, but denied claims by the opposition coalition that nothing was being done to prevent the disease from spreading. The Health Ministry, in confirming that there were ...

The Ministry of Health (MOH) on Tuesday confirmed that an outbreak of chicken pox at the Lusignan Prison has afflicted 53 prisoners at that East Coast Demerara penal institution, but denied claims by the opposition coalition that nothing was being done to prevent the disease from spreading. The Health Ministry, in confirming that there were ...

1 year 3 weeks ago

Health, News, Politics

STAT

Merck’s next big thing is (probably) on the way

New biotech newsletter launching this Thursday. Don’t miss out.

Hello, everyone. Damian here with a look at a pivotal FDA approval, good news for a small biotech company, and why not all buyouts are worth writing home about.

New biotech newsletter launching this Thursday. Don’t miss out.

Hello, everyone. Damian here with a look at a pivotal FDA approval, good news for a small biotech company, and why not all buyouts are worth writing home about.

Read the rest…

1 year 3 weeks ago

Biotech, Business, Health, Pharma, Politics, The Readout, Biotech, biotechnology, drug development, drug prices, drug pricing, finance, genetics, government agencies, Pharmaceuticals, Research

Health – Demerara Waves Online News- Guyana

Guyana govt approves private sector recruitment of foreign health-care workers; not limited to Bangladeshis- Todd

Foreign Affairs Minister Hugh Todd on Monday confirmed that government has given approval to a private company to hire health care workers, and said that the company could now do so from any other country not just Bangladesh. “They have amended that…It can be Latin America and the Caribbean, it could be Asia. It is ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Hugh Todd on Monday confirmed that government has given approval to a private company to hire health care workers, and said that the company could now do so from any other country not just Bangladesh. “They have amended that…It can be Latin America and the Caribbean, it could be Asia. It is ...

1 year 3 weeks ago

Business, Health, News, Politics

Health | NOW Grenada

PM Mitchell: Vision 75 is a plan

Prime Minister Mitchell extended the existing National Sustainable Development Plan’s realisation to Grenada beyond 50 years of independence — at 75 years, to better implement the comprehensive plan drafted with the contribution of ordinary Grenadians

1 year 2 months ago

Agriculture/Fisheries, Business, Health, Politics, curlan campbell, dickon mitchell, national sustainable development plan, vision 75

STAT

STAT+: The lone Democrat willing to weaken Medicare’s power to negotiate drug prices

WASHINGTON — Two Republican lawmakers who introduced legislation to water down the Inflation Reduction Act’s Medicare drug price negotiation program managed to find themselves a Democratic co-sponsor — even though every single Democrat in Congress in 2022 voted

WASHINGTON — Two Republican lawmakers who introduced legislation to water down the Inflation Reduction Act’s Medicare drug price negotiation program managed to find themselves a Democratic co-sponsor — even though every single Democrat in Congress in 2022 voted for the legislation.

They found their perfect candidate in Rep. Don Davis, a Democrat representing a North Carolina district that includes parts of the state’s Research Triangle. He came to Washington in 2023, so didn’t vote on the original law. He received donations in 2023 from the political action committees for Gilead, Astellas, Genentech, Bayer, Pfizer, Novo Nordisk, GSK, Bristol Myers Squibb, BIO, Amgen, Boehringer Ingelheim, Merck, AbbVie, and Eli Lilly.

“We must support the development of critical, life-sustaining medical treatments and cures,” Davis said in a written statement, and a spokesperson declined to elaborate. He is joined on the bill by Rep. Greg Murphy (R-N.C.) and Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.), the Energy and Commerce health subcommittee chairman.

Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

1 year 2 months ago

Politics, CMS, Congress, drug prices, Medicare, STAT+, White House

Health – Demerara Waves Online News- Guyana

Govt asks Inter-American Human Rights Commission to withdraw Chinese Landing petition

The Guyana government has asked the Inter-American Human Rights Commission (IACHR) to withdraw its provisional measures for the Indigenous Indian community of Chinese Landing where residents there had alleged severe physical violence and environmental degradation by a number of gold miners, Minister of  Governance Gail Teixeira said Wednesday.

Minister Teixeira said government last December wrote ...

1 year 3 months ago

Environment, Health, Mining Industry, News, Politics

Health – Demerara Waves Online News- Guyana

Seriously ill Charrandass Persaud flown to Canada

Charrandass Persaud – the then governing APNU+AFC coalition parliamentarian who set in motion the virtual collapse of the David Granger-led administration by voting for a People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)-sponsored no-confidence motion- has fallen seriously ill and was Wednesday evacuated to Canada, according to medical sources. One of the sources said Mr Persaud was suffering ...

Charrandass Persaud – the then governing APNU+AFC coalition parliamentarian who set in motion the virtual collapse of the David Granger-led administration by voting for a People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)-sponsored no-confidence motion- has fallen seriously ill and was Wednesday evacuated to Canada, according to medical sources. One of the sources said Mr Persaud was suffering ...

1 year 3 months ago

Health, News, Politics, Charrandass Persaud, internal bleeding

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