NINE military doctors from the U.S.A. on Thursday toured the Guyana Defence Force Medical Corps at the end of their two-week visit to Guyana. The visiting group consisted of four USAF Aerospace Medical Residents, two Preventative Medicine physicians (one Army and one Navy), two prospective Flight Surgeons, and their Team Leader, Specialist in Infectious Diseases, Dr. Mary Bavaro.

Welcoming the visiting medical team, Colonel Administration and Quartering, Captain (CG) John Flores, conveyed a warm welcome on behalf of Chief of Staff Brigadier Mark Phillips and noted that it was always a good thing when the Force had such erstwhile visitors. He noted too, that such visits presented an opportunity for sharing important information. He then invited the team to tour the Medical Corps facility at Base Camp Ayanganna and expressed warm felicitations that their stay in Guyana was going to be fruitful.

Officer Commanding Medical Corps Major Parmeshwar Netram accompanied by the Force’s Medical Officer Dr. Frederick Deane and other Medical Corps Staff, escorted the team through a tour of the facilities.

Apart from Captain Bavaro, the other members of the team are students of Military Tropical Medicine at the Uniformed Services University (USU) in Bethesda, Maryland. In order to fulfil the requirement for their mandatory field exposure, the team requested to visit Guyana. The Guyana Defence Force is pleased to have facilitated a visit to its facilities since it places a very high premium on military to military co-operation with Guyana’s allies.