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Guyana observes World TB Day
Today, Guyana joins the world in observing World TB Day under the theme “Reach the 3 Million. Find, Treat, Cure TB”. And, to kick start this year’s one-week observance, officers and ranks of the Guyana Defence Force engaged in a friendly football match in collaboration with the Ministry of Health.
Dr.William Adu Krow (with sun shades) presents a trophy to the winning Captain following the ceremonial game of football.
This symbolic football match showed the Ministry’s and key stakeholders’ ambitions of kicking Tuberculosis (TB) out of Guyana. TB occurs in low and middle income countries, like Guyana, and is greater among persons with compromised immune systems, says Health Minister Bheri Ramsarran.
TB is responsible for one fifth of all deaths of HIV patients. As such, the Ministry has been collaborating with the Guyana Defence Force in the area of training for personnel to screen for TB.
According to Dr. Inderjeet Mohanlall, Head of the TB Programme, the Force has an active programme to fight against Human Immune Virus (HIV) and as part of that initiative the Ministry has trained medex and other staff in the area of screening.
Prior to the football activity, participants, including staff of the Ministry of Health, Pan-American Health Organization and the National AIDS Programme Secretariat engaged in an early morning walk. The fitness walk commenced at the Ministry of Health on Brickdam and culminated at the Camp Ayangana ground. Along the route, critical information on TB was disseminated to the scores of citizens who lined the streets looking at the procession.
Today, the TB programme will be hosting an information desk at the Regency Suites, Hadfield Street. This is being done while the National AIDS Programme Secretariat would be hosting its stakeholder meeting on the Global AIDS Report.
Dr. Mohanlall added that health teams would be scattered around the City to educate citizens. An important event for this year’s observance will be the appreciation ceremony on Friday at the Pegasus Hotel. The highlight of this event would be the presentation of the Dr. Mootilall’s award to the best performing doctor in this field.
He noted that the TB Programme has three doctors at the Chest Clinic and 10 in all the Administrative Regions. A doctor is currently undergoing training in Australia and upon her return she will be managing the new TB facility at the West Demerara Regional Hospital.
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