Minister of Public Health Dr George Norton said on Wednesday that once approved the $28 billion allocated to the health sector in the national budget will be divided into seven programmes aimed at addressing the sector holistically.
“We place emphasis on the fact that the Ministry of Public Health is adopting a multisectoral approach to health care delivery and I think this was suggested by another member on the opposite side, but we have already embarked on engaging other ministries on the fight against diseases like Zika and causes of suicide,” he said. He pointed out that ministries such as education, agriculture, citizenship, telecommunications and tourism, communities, natural resources, social cohesion, and even security will have to work together so that they can have a collective approach to something as national as to what is taking place in respect to Zika.
“This is to ensure that the people of Guyana will be among the healthiest people in the
