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Takutu Bridge opens Guyana to more health threats

Sep 23, 2009 News

With the recently commissioned Takutu Bridge, Guyana is expected to have an influx of visitors from the neighbouring country of Brazil.
In this regard, the Ministry of Health is currently training its port health workers to effectively manage its borders for any diseases or infections that may be brought into the country.
This is being done, especially since the Health Ministry is already having a difficult time controlling malaria in Guyana.
According to Minister of Health, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, Guyana and Brazil have a permanent joint commission to deal with border health. “So we’ve been working at both sides to deal with this issue,” Dr. Ramsammy said.
He explained that the incidence of resistant type of malaria is greater in Brazil than in Guyana.
This, he said, introduces that genetic mix which increases the public health concerns of Guyana.
“Anytime you open up your borders, there’re going to be these concerns. But we have been for more than ten years; working on these issues and Brazil has been a very good partner in terms of our health collaboration.”
Recently, Minister Ramsammy revealed that his Ministry is already having a hard time keeping the malaria situation under control in Guyana.
He explained that the situation is one that is increasing, given the increased economic circumstances in Regions One, Seven, Eight and Nine, where more mining activities are taking place.
According to the Health Minister, in many Amerindian communities, concessions are being given out by the villagers themselves.
In these areas, he noted that the way in which mining is done leaves breathing sites for the mosquitoes and this has provided a huge challenge for the Health Ministry.
However, what is troubling at this point for the Ministry of Health has to do with the fact that out of the 6,700 malaria cases that have been recorded thus far, 51 per cent of them is of the more serious type of malaria.
This, Dr. Ramsammy said, coincides with the kind of increase in the involvement of the private sector in selling of anti – malarial drugs.

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