The Guyana International Relief Organisation (GIRO) in partnership with the Islamic Relief Organisation (IRO) yesterday donated a quantity of medical supplies to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
As the supplies were being loaded onto the hospital’s truck inside the GPHC’s compound, Shazaad Khan, Chief Executive Officer of GIRO, told hospital officials and the media that surplus medication in Canada are taken to the Health Partners International of Canada (HPIC) and then sent to third world countries.
“Usually medications go through the Canadian government as well as charitable organisations that are qualified according to the status in Canada and works with beneficiary countries such as Guyana,” he said. GIRO, a charitable organisation, has been a part of this project for almost 10 years and from 2005 to 2007, it shipped about
