With heart disease continuing to be the leading cause of death among Guyanese, the recently-established Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) is meeting the needs of patients by offering specialized treatment and care.
The CICU, located at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), is a project resulting from collaboration between the Guyana Partnership for Advanced Cardiac Care (GPACC), the Ministry of Public Health and the Calgary University’s Libin Cardiovascular Institute in Alberta, Canada, and forms part of comprehensive plan to tackle heart disease in Guyana.
Co-director of GPACC and resident cardiologist at the GPHC Dr Mahendra Carpen, in a recent interview with Stabroek News, said the project supports the provision of infrastructure development to facilitate cardiac treatment as well as focuses on training a new generation of cardiac care providers to serve the Guyanese public.
And though he is aware that the unit was
