Workshop plugs quality maternal care

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Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy has said that he believes that Guyana is not too poor a nation to achieve its goal of a 75 percent reduction in maternity deaths by 2015.

Speaking at the Advance in Labour and Risk Management (Alarm) international course on Obstetrician and Gynaecology workshop held at Cara Lodge last Friday, the health minister asserted,  “I do not believe that when it comes to maternal child health care that a child born in Albion must be worse off than a child born in Canada.”…..


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