Clinical trials for treatment of positive COVID-19 cases are currently underway at Guyana’s main COVID-19 treatment facility, the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr. Karen Gordon-Boyle announced yesterday.
The announcement was made during the Ministry of Public Health’s daily COVID-19 update, where Gordon-Boyle said that while there is no vaccine or approved treatment for the virus, clinical trials are being done at the GPH, where the most severe cases are being treated.
It was previously reported that Guyana had expressed interest in the usage of convalescent plasma from recovered patients of the virus, to treat those persons who were at severe stages of the disease. Sources at the hospital revealed that this is one of the treatment methods that is currently being used as the clinical trials continue at the facility.
