GPHC gets Japanese grant for paediatric ward

Japan’s Ambassador to Guyana His Excellency Yoshimasa Tezuka hands over the cheque to Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation’s Chief Executive Officer Michael Khan in the presence of Prime Minister Samuel Hinds. (Government Information Agency photo)

Japan presented a US$97,300 grant to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) on Friday to augment the equipment in the Paediatric Ward.

Japanese Ambassador to Guyana Yoshimasa Tezuka presented the cheque to hospital CEO Michael Khan, via the Grassroot Human Project, a report from the Government Information Agency (GINA) said. The sum will be used to purchase monitors, ventilators and infusion pumps.

In a brief address at the presentation ceremony, Khan was quoted as saying that over the last five years a total of 12,090 children