EDITOR’S NOTE: At the end of April, #HealthCaribbean featured Guyana exclusively, in our edition 2021-05-03. We do the same in this newsletter. Three topics are covered, namely, surgical proceedure at Woodlands Hospital, surgical proceedures at Georgetown Public Hospital, and COVID-19. See our Twitter feed for more.

Our headline, taken from iNews Guyana, reads: “Dr Dukhi Performs Guyana’s First Paediatric Brain Aneurysm Surgery”. Neurosurgeon, Dr. Amarnauth Dukhi, performed the country’s first paediatric brain aneurysm surgery on 13-year-old St. Roses High student, Ty David, at the Woodlands Hospital.

This month, the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) Nephrology and Kidney Transplant Department will perform its first operation on a patient from outside Guyana. And, once Guyana passes its organ transplant legislation, GPHC’s Ophthalmology department intends to store human tissues needed for eye surgeries.

The Pan-American Health Organization has confirmed that Brazil’s P.1 variant of the SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes COVID-19 — is present in Guyana. Fortunately, more than 44.3 percent of Guyana’s adult population has already been vaccinated, compared to 10 percent in other Caribbean countries.

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