In the early 2000s, it cost US$500,000 for 10 patients to receive cardiac treatment overseas. Today, the same service can be provided for 100 patients for that same cost at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
One step in realising this breakthrough is the commissioning of the country’s first Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU), which can house up to eight cardiac patients in need of acute care.
The unit will provide free to the Guyanese public acute care services, such as a heart failure clinic, cardiac catheterisation,
