Healthcare services available to all Venezuelan re-migrants – Region 2 RHO

Healthcare services offered by the Government are accessible to all Venezuelan re-migrants in Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam).
This was revealed by Regional Health Officer (RHO) Dr Ranjeev Singh during a meeting held at Anna Regina State House on Monday with Venezuelan re-migrants.
“Re-migrants that resettled in Essequibo (Coast)…will be treated equally as Guyanese and as such medical healthcare service will be proposed to them as well in the region,” Dr Singh told the gathering.
Monday’s meeting was a follow-up to a meeting held over the weekend with re-migrants and officials from the Foreign Affairs Ministry.
Additionally, Dr Singh said that re-migrants that do not have their proper documentation will still be able to access healthcare services.
The RHO said that the COVID-19 vaccine is also available for Venezuelan re-migrants.
Over the weekend, Foreign Secretary with the Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Ministry, Robert Persaud held a meeting with re-migrants at the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) Boardroom where numerous concerns were raised. Among the issues raised was the fact that re-migrants are denied access to healthcare services by healthcare workers at public hospitals. It was as a result of this that Monday’s meeting was called with the RHO and the re-migrants.
“At no time Venezuelan re-migrants should ever put off because we are all human being together. They should be treated the similar way as we Guyanese are treated,” Persaud said during Saturday’s meeting.