President Granger returns after 2nd round of chemotherapy

President David Granger returned to Guyana on Tuesday following his second round of chemotherapy in Havana, Cuba for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma.

According to a statement released by the Embassy of Guyana in Cuba, the Cuban team of specialists reiterated their complete satisfaction with the President’s response to medical treatment and explained that they would continue to monitor the President’s progress in the coming weeks.
On Monday last, the Guyanese President met with the Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla as he expressed appreciation to his medical team for the treatment he was afforded.
Recently, Government responded to a news article published by an online media outfit that reported President Granger could not speak as a result of cancer in his throat.
A statement from the Ministry of the Presidency on Sunday last said the article was totally false, and explained that the President could communicate and did so before his recent departure to Cuba.
The President had explained in a video that the Centro de Investigaciones Médico Quirúrgicas (CIMEQ) had drafted a schedule of treatment, which would run until May 2019.
The Ministry of the Presidency statement said, “While the Government of Guyana respects the fundamental right of its citizens to freedom of speech as well as press freedom, it condemns in the strongest possible way the publishing of misinformation, untruths.”
The Ministry of the Presidency has called on the public not to be duped by the misinformation, falsehoods, and distortions consistently being published by that news agency.