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HEALTH MINISTRY TO SET UP SPECIAL CLINIC FOR LONG COVID PATIENTS

MINISTRY BEGINS COUNTRYWIDE DATA COLLECTION EXERCISE

Friday Sept. 3, 2021

GTU THREATENS STRIKE IF ONE TEACHER IS LOCKED OUT

TWO KILLED EXECUTION STYLE IN SOPHIA

Friday Sept. 3, 2021

HEALTH MINISTRY TO SET UP SPECIAL CLINIC FOR LONG COVID PATIENTS

In the coming months, the Minister of Health will focus on creating a Clinic that will focus directly on patients who have recovered from the dreaded COVID-19 Virus but still suffer from long-term illnesses from the virus.

This announcement was made by the Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony who said that due to persons continuing to suffer from the virus in various others ways, a Clinic will be set up at the Georgetown Public

Hospital to deal with COVID-19 specifically by various health care workers.

“We have been looking at patients who have recovered from COVID-19 but are now experiencing prolonged symptoms. Because of how many persons have recovered and we’re hearing different things, what we are now in the process of organizing is a multi-disciplinary team to provide care for long COVID Patients,” Minister Anthony said

COVID-19 is an infectious respiratory illness caused by a newly discovered coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2.

‘CO’ stands for corona, ‘VI’ for the virus, and ‘D’ for disease.

Those affected by the virus can have symptoms similar to those of the flu, the common cold, and other conditions, so a test is required to confirm if someone has COVID-19. Symptoms may appear two to 14 days after exposure to the virus and can range

from very mild to severe illness. Some people who have been infected don’t have any symptoms.

On the other hand, some persons have experienced shortness of breath, chest pain or pressure, muscle or body aches, headache, loss of taste or smell, confusion, sore throat, congestion or runny nose, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain, skin rashes, fever, cough, and tiredness.

When positive with the virus doctors have

maintained that at that moment it can affect several organs in the body such as the heart, lungs, brain, etc.

This fatigue on the various organs can cause long-term effects and as such the Ministry of Health according to the Minister, will focus on those patients to ensure that they are fully recovered even when the virus is taken care of.

As such, Minister Anthony explained that the Clinic will be comprised of the specialist to specifically deal with the prolong problems COVID-19 may have caused since the virus as most times attacks various organs in the body.

“So, this is just not one specialty, just like cardiac, this is going to be a multi-disciplinary team because of what we are seeing with

COVID-19. It can affect any of the organs in the body, or sometimes several organs of the body simultaneously and therefore you need this multi-disciplinary team to assist in the management of these patients,” Minister Anthony explained.

The Minister said that at first, the Ministry will focus on setting up the first facility at the Georgetown Public Hospital and then will be replicated to other hospitals around the country.

Thus far, Guyana has recorded 25,770 Positive COVID-19 Cases since March 2020 and a total of 23,196 persons have recovered with some 624 persons dying from the virus.

Region Four has been the most affected region with most of the country’s population on the coast.

GTU THREATENS STRIKE IF ONE TEACHER IS LOCKED OUT

As teachers are set to go back to school on Monday for face to face learning, a year and a half after school was closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Guyana Teachers Union is warning the Minister of Education that if one of their members is turned away from school because they are unvaccinated, the union will seek to call

strike action.

This comment was made by the Head of the GTU, Mark Lyte, at a protest in front of the Ministry Education Brickdam Office. The protest was based on a memo that was circulated informing that those who are not vaccinated will not be able to enter the school compound.

Mr. Lyte said he will

request union members to stand in solidarity with their colleagues and put down their teaching tools.

“We will be monitoring very closely, what will take place at our various schools, and if one teacher is preventing from accessing the school we are advising our members that all of us must withdraw our

service. Let us see who will teach the students,” Mr. Lyte said.

The Ministries of Education and Health have had some level of condemnation for the unvaccinated.

The GTU noted that it formed part of the discrimination factor for those who haven’t taken the COVID-19, which should have been

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a choice.

This, the GTU, said it will not stand for since some individuals have some health problems and as such choose not to take the vaccines.

“A teacher who opted to take the vaccine should be treated as one the same way of someone who opts not to take the vaccine because we are in a democratic state like we always profess.

“We believe that persons have to exercise their right and if an individual is saying that ‘I don’t believe I should take that vaccine’ that right must be respected,” Mr. Lyte explained.

He said teachers must be represented well by the Minister of Education, Hon. Ms. Priya Manickchand, and so far the Minister has not done so.

In response, Ministry Education said that it’s a plan that will not fall

through knowing that the decision to reopen the school was founded on the basis of the contribution from its members, the Ministry of Health, and parents.

“All the plans that came and were published came from teachers of the various schools.

That way you will see Leonora will give you a different plan from Sarswatti although they are in Region Three.

“The teachers have determined what would best suit their needs in their schools. So, I would be surprised if the Union is making any call that does not accord with its membership wants.”

As schools are set to open on Monday, students, teachers, and parents are expected to be vaccinated to enter school. Teachers will have the option to attend school by providing a negative PCR Test.

Friday Sept. 3, 2021

MINISTRY BEGINS COUNTRYWIDE DATA COLLECTION EXERCISE

To update records of unemployed women in an effort to develop vulnerable groups and deliver programs THE Ministry of that will benefit these Human Services and groups of people and Social Security is other categories of currently in the process persons as well.

Eligible persons of updating its records and commenced a are asked to register countrywide data Monday to Friday collection exercise last between the hours of 8 Wednesday, which am to 4:30 pm, and on will run throughout the Saturdays from 9 am month of September. to 12:30 pm. Officers The Ministry is will be stationed at the updating its database of locations to facilitate persons with disabilities, a smooth process of single parents, and registratio

Two killed execution style in Sophia

The Police are probing a double execution-style killing of a Sophia resident and his girlfriend, who were both riddled in ‘B’ Field, Sophia, East Coast Demerara.

According to a statement from the Police Public Relations Department, Daniel Fraser, a 26-year-old, Lance Corporal of the Guyana Defence Force and of lot 598 ‘A’ Field Sophia, and Shanika Forde, 23-year-old female unemployed who was residing in Barbados,

but stayed at her friend’s house, while vacationing for the past three months, were the two that were killed.

They were sharing an intimate relationship for about two weeks.

The force added that the incident occurred just after 23:30 hours Wednesday, as the couple was heading home from a shop at C Field Sophia.

The report stated that the two were heading west along last street ‘B’ Field Sophia when they were confronted by

an unknown male who approached them from a northerly direction on a bicycle and discharged six rounds at Fraser and Forde causing them to fall on the ground.

The suspect reportedly then rode away in a westerly direction and made good his escape.

Fraser and Forde were picked up by Fraser’s brother Darrell Fraser and taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation in a taxi where they were pronounced dead on arrival.

Fraser received one gunshot wound to his chest while Forde received three shots – one to the chest, one to her right knee, and one to the right side abdomen which exited the

left side abdomen.

As the motive for the gunning down Sophia man and his Guyanabased Barbados girlfriend in the Sophia Area last night remains unclear, the mother of the dead man is now in shock. She sees no motive in the killing.

No items were suspected taken and eyewitnesses in the area saw some the men running away from the scene.

In what is now listed as an execution-style killing, Fraser’s mother, Ms. Michelle Fraser, remains in total shock at losing her second child in such a manner.

According to Ms. Fraser her son would have celebrated his birthday just a few days ago said she does not see any clear

motive for someone to want her to take his life knowing the type of jovial person he was.

“I don’t know; I don’t know. He and nobody have a problem. Daniel is a jovial child. He loves sport; he is a sporting person.”

She said he would be a person who would not give up his belongings so easily but that wasn’t the case in this instance. It remains unclear what may have caused someone to kill him.

“Daniel, I know is a person if you come to him he does not give up his thing like that. He is a person like that. He would stand up for his rights.

That is how he stays, but I can’t say what happened.

I can’t say what happened

there,” Ms. Fraser added.

The Mother said that maybe Ms. Forde was the target since the suspected gunman was known to her. Daniel Fraser got caught in the mix.

Ms. Fraser noted however that it has already happened and all she wants is justice for her son. He leaves to mourn his mother, father, and his entire family.

As the probe continues into the murder, investigators so far are on the hunt for an individual.

The bodies of the two are currently at the Georgetown Public Hospital mortuary awaiting post mortem examination.

Checks were made for the suspect but without success.

Guyana records eight more COVID-19 deaths The Ministry of Health positive tests.

The details on the latest (MOH) regrettably fatalities are below: informs that as of September 1, 2021, eight more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died. This takes the total number of deaths from the pandemic to 632.

The patients were admitted with COVID-19 like symptoms but died while receiving care at our medical institutions.

Samples were taken at the time of admission which subsequently returned info@guyanapostonline.com

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Friday Sept. 3, 2021

Less than 25 per cent of Latam-Caribbean people vaccinated

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director Carissa F. Etienne warned that 75% of the population in Latin America and the Caribbean has yet to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. She reported that PAHO is accelerating its drive to expand vaccine access throughout the region.

“Three-fourths of people in Latin America and the Caribbean have not been fully

immunized,” Dr. Etienne said during her weekly media briefing.

“More than a third of countries in our region have yet to vaccinate 20% of their populations. And in some places, coverage is much lower.”

“Vaccination rates remain in the teens in several Caribbean and South American countries.

Coverage is still in the single digits in Central American nations like Guatemala, Honduras,

and Nicaragua,” she continued.

In Haiti and Venezuela, fragile health systems and political challenges have further delayed immunizations.

“Unfortunately, countries with high coverage are the exception in our Region,” she emphasized.

Dr. Etienne said that 540 million COVID-19 vaccine doses must be delivered to ensure that all countries in Latin America and the Caribbean can

cover at least 60% of their populations. “So we must expand vaccine access in our region, especially in the places that are lagging,” she said.

In response to the shortage, PAHO has launched a fresh drive for donations. “We are working to draw the attention of developed countries to the urgent need to donate vaccines to Latin America and the Caribbean,” Dr. Etienne said.

ventured to the home and peeped through the windows and saw Rawlins hanging.

Upon seeing such, the nephews, Isiah Robertson, recalled that by not seeing his aunt, he then kicked down the door and gained entry.

Robertson upon

entering the house said that he saw blood everywhere. The bloody trail led to his aunt in the room where he saw her lying on the bed with her throat silt.

Subsequently, an alarm was raised and the police were later called.

Robertson explained that the two are married for approximately seven years but would constantly be getting into an argument with each other over the woman not spending quality time with him.

One of such argument, according to the boy, took place just the night before they last saw them alive but they are unsure whether the episode would have triggered the tragic death of the couple.

Murder-suicide at Recht Door Zee

A family of Recht Door Zee, West Bank Demerara, are now mourning the loss of a husband and wife, in what appears to be a murder/suicide.

The two dead are 45-year-old Rawlins Rodrigues and 37-yearold Mariya Camele Robertson-Rodrigues, a info@guyanapostonline.com

husband and wife.

According to reports, it was just around about 9:00 hours on Wednesday that the bodies were discovered by the woman’s 11-year-old.

The young lad then conveyed the information to the rest of the family, who then

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In addition, PAHO is using its Revolving Fund to procure vaccines for member states. Already PAHO has received requests from 24 countries for COVID-19 vaccines, which will be available in the final quarter of this year and in 2022.

“We are also thinking ahead and making plans to significantly improve regional vaccine manufacturing capacity,” Dr. Etienne said. “Just last week, we launched a new platform that convenes, partners, around a shared vision of boosting state-ofthe-art vaccine production in Latin America and the Caribbean.”

The first initiative under the platform is to facilitate the transfer to the region of the mRNA vaccine technology used in highly effective COVID-19 vaccines. PAHO has received 32 proposals from private and public companies that want to participate in the endeavor.

Dr. Etienne urged countries to prioritize the most vulnerable for vaccination, such as the elderly, health workers, and those living with pre-existing conditions.

Countries should make sure that logistics systems can absorb vaccine doses and cold chains can keep them cool and that health systems are ready to deliver doses fast once they arrive.

While vaccination rates are low in Latin America and the Caribbean, many countries are experiencing a rapid rise in COVID-19 infection.

In the Caribbean, Saint Lucia and Puerto Rico are reporting high rates of new infections, while Jamaica is experiencing its highest-ever COVID deaths.

“Outbreaks are accelerating in multiple Central American countries, especially Costa Rica and Belize,” Dr. Etienne said. “In South America, infections are generally declining, with a few exceptions: in Venezuela cases are plateauing, and in Suriname, transmission has increased for four consecutive weeks.”

In total, over 1.6 million new COVID-19 cases and just under 22,000 deaths were reported in the Americas in the past week.

Friday Sept. 3, 2021

Unattended child struck down on Parika road

A three-year-old Hyde Park girl is currently nursing serious injuries after a driver claimed she was struck down by a car while running across the road unattended to by her parents.

The police have explained that the accident took place yesterday, Tuesday, just about 17:00 hours on the Hyde Park Parika Access Road, E.B.E. At that time, the police said that 55-yearold Lorna Boodhoo of

Lawrence, EBE was at the time driving along Hyde Park, Access Road E.B.E in her car PXX 9412.

According to reports, Ms. Boodhoo was at the time proceeding west along the southern side of the road when she claimed that the three-year-old, who was unsupervised ran across the road from north to south into the path of the car.

Ms. Boodhoo said that observing such she took evasive action by swerving to the southern

direction to avoid a collision, but the right side front fender of the car hit the child.

As a result of the collision, the young girl fell onto the road surface where she received injuries about her body.

She was later picked up in a conscious state by her mother, 21-yearold, Kasanna Young, and taken to Leonora Cottage Hospital, where she was seen and examined by a doctor on duty and later transferred to West

CPL teams, officials arrive into ST Kitts & Nevis

The majority of the Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) cohort have arrived in St Kitts & Nevis ahead of the tournament which gets underway on August 26, 2021.

255 travelers have

arrived and entered the tournament bubble.

Following a rigorous testing process, there have been two cases of COVID-19 detected. A comprehensive contact tracing process has taken place along with

additional testing and no further cases have been identified.

The two individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19 are isolating as per the comprehensive protocols that have been put together by the

tournament organizing committee, Hero CPL’s medical advisors, and the health authorities in St Kitts & Nevis.

Michael Hall, Hero CPL’s Tournament Operations Director, said:

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“The two positive cases were identified quickly following on arrival testing and were flagged with Hero CPL while in-room quarantine was still taking place for those individuals.

“The tournament bubble remains intact and there has been no exposure to the wider public in the Federation. We are looking forward to getting the cricket underway on the 26 August.”

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