US-based Guyanese nurses donate 20,000 masks for local frontline workers

At left is Cleopatra Barkoye, President of the GNA, accepting the donation of the masks from Kezia Nestor-Victor, President of the Young Leaders in Diabetes in Guyana, who handed them over on behalf of the GNAA Inc

The Guyanese Nurses Association of America Inc. (GNAA) yesterday donated 20,000 medical masks to the Guyana Nurses Association (GNA).

The donation was handed over at the GNA’s Charlotte and Alexander streets headquarters.

In a press release, the GNAA said the masks are to be distributed to nurses and others who are providing care to patients in the COVID-19 pandemic.