
Doctors and nurses working in paediatric units at public health facilities have been targeted in a series of training sessions to further reduce the rates of infant mortality and morbidity.
According to a release from the Government Information Agency (GINA), the healthcare professionals have been, and continue to be, trained in the field through a number of pilot programmes, and collaborative efforts with international organisations
Head of the Paediatrics Department of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), Dr Clive Bowman said, “In 2011, residency training was started in Guyana and to date, 10 paediatricians have been trained… We also have nine residents who are currently in training. We recognise that we cannot train doctors and don’t have trained nurses, so in 2013 again, through the initiative of the Guyana Help The Kids (GHTK), Dr Narendra Singh and the Nationwide Children Hospital, we started our neonatal intensive care training, training nurses who are specially equipped to care for very sick newborn babies.”

