The Canada-Guyana Medical Partnerships Coalition (C-GMPC) on February 28, 2015, held its annual fundraiser and silent auction and raised $5,694,498 for family medicine, a release from the Canadian High Commission said on Friday.
The monies will support Family Medicine for Guyana Inc., a registered Guyanese charity whose main role is to support the work of the inaugural Family Medicine Residency Program for Guyana. The release said that the programme is a collaborative effort between the Universities of Ottawa and Guyana, the Institute of Health Sciences Education and the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation. It is intended to build on the endeavours of the Governments of Canada and Guyana to improve primary health care delivery in Guyana. It will support the development and delivery of an inaugural family medicine residency training programme which will see 18 family medicine specialists providing comprehensive, patient-centred, community-based care, and another 30 residents in training by 2020, the release added.
The Canada-Guyana Medical Partnerships Coalition was described as an informal grouping of the numerous Canadian-Guyanese medical outreach groups working to identify and address health care needs in Guyana. The release said that it was established in 2014, by the High Commission of Canada with the support of the Ministry of Health. The coalition has
