The public/private partnership which the Guyana government has been fostering in the health sector has once again borne productive results after an outreach to various parts of the country by the Guyana Watch Incorporated medical team.

President Bharrat Jagdeo with the entire Guyana Medical Watch team

President Bharrat Jagdeo meeting some members of the Guyana Medical Watch team

The team of 32 includes internal and emergency medicine specialists, two pharmacists, two dentists and a number of doctors serving in the capacity as support personnel.

Their venture began on July 23 at the Shaheed Boys Orphanage, Alexander Street, Kitty. Visits were also made to Patentia, Anna Regina, Timehri, Tain, Bath Settlement and Windsor Forest .

The team culminated its activities on Friday with a courtesy visit to President Bharrat Jagdeo at State House, where members updated him on their venture.

Accompanying the team was President of the Guyana Watch Incorporated Tony Yassin and other members.

President Bharrat Jagdeo having a light conversation with members of the Guyana Medical Watch team

Over the years the Guyana Watch Incorporated has been sponsoring several children in need of heart surgery for treatment at the Westchester Medical Centre, the primary academic medical center and University Hospital of New York Medical College (NYMC).

Only recently the public private partnership enabled the Caribbean Heart Institute (CHI) to realize the dream of conducting paediatric heart surgeries at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) by a team of experienced medical professionals.

The team includes two surgeons, two anesthesiologists, two perfusionists, three cardiologists and four critical care nurses drawn from the Long Island Jewish, Mount Sinai, Montefiore and Maimonides medical centres, Texas Children’s Hospital and the Miami Hospital. (GINA)