With Guyana is seeing an “alarming” percentage of heart disease, especially among young people, four local doctors are hoping to use the knowledge they have gained from a just-concluded echocardiography programme to both help patients and raise awareness among the wider population about heart ailments.
The doctors, Angelina Dhani, Arnelle Sparman, Thashana Teekah and Sarah Lalman, who were chosen from hospitals across the country, yesterday graduated from an eight week programme carried out by the Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, Canada and the Ministry of Health, which instructed them in identifying and analysing heart conditions using echocardiograms.
“…The heart disease I see here is heart disease I don’t see at home because its been caught earlier… one of the things that really needs to be done and we are looking at and trying to develop is trying to look at more early recognition of problems …our goal now is to
