Guyana’s first Spirometry lab was launched yesterday, along with an asthma education programme, at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
Dr Robert Levy of the University of British Columbia, who is spearheading the Guyana Spirometry and Asthma/Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases (COPD) Education programme, said that the goal is shift care from hospital beds, to community based care.
Three doctors and two nurses will be trained initially and Dr Levy noted that the programme will start at GPHC and then move
