Guyana on list to benefit from UK facility upgrade funding

The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) is assessing some 600 health centres and hospitals across the Region, including Guyana, to gain funding for improvement of its health facilities.
It is expected that some 50 healthcare facilities in seven Caribbean countries will be improved and retrofitted as part of the SMART Health Care Facilities project, with .3 million in financial support from the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (UK aid).
PAHO Health Emergencies Department, in partnership with the Ministries of Health from the various nations, is assessing the health centres, hospitals, and similar facilities in Grenada, Saint Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, Jamaica, Guyana and Belize.
The selection of the facilities and the retrofitting works are being guided by a team of regional experts under the supervision of Regional Advisor and Project Manager Dr Dana van Alphen, using the SMART Toolkit developed by PAHO to assess structural, non-structural, functional and environmentally sound elements.