Red Cross gets new ambulance to boost first aid response

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(From left to right) Kashir Khan, Japanese Consulate General to Guyana, Teni Housty, Chairman of the Guyana Red Cross Society, Takaaki Kato, First Secretary to the Japanese Embassy, Dorothy Fraser, Director General of the GRCS, Deborah Yaw, Head of the Multilateral and Global Affairs of the Guyana Foreign Affairs Ministry and Devaughn Lewis, First Aid Coordinator of the GRCS, following the handing over of the new ambulance from the Japanese government to the GRCS.
(From left to right) Kashir Khan, Japanese Consulate General to Guyana, Teni Housty, Chairman of the Guyana Red Cross Society, Takaaki Kato, First Secretary to the Japanese Embassy, Dorothy Fraser, Director General of the GRCS, Deborah Yaw, Head of the Multilateral and Global Affairs of the Guyana Foreign Affairs Ministry and Devaughn Lewis, First Aid Coordinator of the GRCS, following the handing over of the new ambulance from the Japanese government to the GRCS.

The Guyana Red Cross Society (GRCS) is hoping to improve its service to the general public after receiving a $12.2M ambulance from the Japanese government

The donation of the ambulance comes after months of planning between the Japanese Embassy and Guyana’s Foreign Affairs Ministry and is a part of the GRCS’s First Responders Ambulance Project.

According to Devaughn Lewis, First Aid Coordinator of the GRCS, the organisation has provided first aid services to a number