The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) and GuySuCo last week trained medical, clerical and administrative staff of the latter who will help ex-sugar workers reintegrate into the society.
A release from MoPH said that the workshop was part of initiatives targeting around 4,000 recently-retrenched Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) workers some of whom MoPH Men’s Health Coordinator, Dr Dennis Bassier said have fallen into a destructive lifestyle.
Bassier said that though the number of unemployed former sugar employees has decreased with the reopening of one of the estates, the programme is gathering momentum because the Ministry has realised the some affected persons have “gone on to engage in lifestyles that are not desirable as it relates to their health.”
