Global Shapers ‘Give the Gift of Life’ blood drive successful
In keeping with the Christmas spirit of giving, the Global Shapers Community – Georgetown Hub, in collaboration with the National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS),...
New complex for Food, Drug Department
The Public Health Ministry will be undertaking the construction of a modern multi-million-dollar complex in 2017, to house the Government Analyst Food and Drug...
Woman has baby using ovary frozen in childhood
(BBC) A woman has given birth in London after doctors restored her fertility using frozen ovarian tissue removed when she was a young child.
The...
Norton roasted for constantly being embroiled in one scandal after another
Opposition MPs 'fed-up' with his continuous misleading public statements
urge Gov't to stop interfering in functioning of statutory authorities, particularly those designed to...
Boy dies, brother ‘brain dead’ in unknown illness, health officials baffled-Norton
The death of a nine-year-old boy from the village of Kako, Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) and the hopeless condition of his 11-year-old brother who was...
GPHC commissions Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
The first Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) was commissioned yesterday at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). Services offered at the facility will be...
Food & Drug lists 26 companies licenced to provide treated water
The Government Analyst-Food & Drug Department has listed for health and safety purposes, 26 companies that are currently licenced to provide treated water to...
Sale of meat on the streets will be prohibited- M&CC
The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) says that they are in the process of implementing a decision made at their Statutory Meeting held recently,...
No resitting of nurses’ final examination – Health official
Public Health Minister Dr George Norton has recommended, based on the report submitted to his office by the Nursing Council, that there should be...
GPHC acquiring new equipment for screening, testing for diabetic retinopathy
Minister Public Health, Dr. George Norton has emphasised that the services offered at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) should not be taken for...