Health Ministry gets over 1.5m medical masks
Personal Protection Equipment including over 1.5 million medical masks amounting to $77 million have been donated to Guyana’s Ministry of Health COVID Prevention Programme
A release from the Ministry of Health thanked the CanadaGuyana Chamber of Commerce (CGCC) partners, PRIMED Medical Products, GlobalMedic and CS World Cargo.
CGCC Co-chair, Winston Kassim said in the release “As a result of our bilateral partnership, we are contributing to Guyana’s COVID Prevention Programme, which is particularly significant in light of the new COVID19 variant, Omicron. The
Chamber is grateful to Rahul Singh, Executive Director of GlobalMedic, PRIMED Medical Products for providing these masks and to Chandie Singh, Director of CS World Cargo, who facilitated the processing and container shipment to Guyana”.
CGCC CEO, Treina Fiona Butts said “We must also thank the Hon. Minister Dr. Frank Anthony and the staff of Guyana’s Ministry of Health for facilitating the speedy clearance of these items so they can be distributed to Guyana’s health care facilities and workers. This is the second donation of 2021 made by the Canada-Guyana Chamber of Commerce. The first comprised a quantity of food and sanitation items as well as monetary donations to the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) in June 2021.”