Minister of Public Health, Dr George Norton says that to bring the present rate of maternal, child and infant mortality down the country needs to break from its dependence on foreign specialists and instead train more Guyanese doctors in obstetrics, gynaecology and paediatrics.
“We can only bring down that maternal mortality rate, that child and infant mortality down when we have Guyanese paediatricians, Guyanese Gynae Obs specialists working in our institutions. That is when we are going to bring it down to a level” far below where it is at the moment, the Minister said while delivering the charge at the graduation ceremony of the 2015 batch of Cuban-trained Guyanese medical doctors.
The ceremony, which was held at the Arthur Chung Convention Centre on Saturday saw 93 new doctors take the
