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Guyana/Jamaica body to sponsor medical symposium

Feb 20, 2016 News

The Guyana-Jamaica Friendship Association (GJFA) in conjunction with Fly Jamaica Airways will be sponsoring a medical symposium in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Health, at the Arthur Chung Convention Center on Sunday February 21.
The Symposium will focus on aspects of Women’s health and include speakers from Jamaica, Professor Horace Fletcher, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica; and Head of the Department of Pathology at the University Hospital of the West Indies, Dr. Gilian Wharfe.
Also slated to speak are veteran Women’s Rights Activist, Ms Karen DeSouza and Consultant Gynecologist, Dr. Galton Roberts.
The GJFA will be represented by its President, Frank Denbow MD, Vice-President, Claudette Powell MA, RN, and members, Leonie Hernandez, June De Weever, and Marcia Waithe.
The GJFA team will also visit Region Two to meet with senior health officials there as well as to distribute more than 300 books to the Mashabo Primary School which the GJFA has adopted over the last two years.
These books will be in addition to a previous supply of books and other educational materials as well as cricket equipment previously donated to the school which is located in an Indigenous village on the Essequibo Coast.
The GJFA is a New York based 501(c) (3) tax exempt non-profit organization consisting of Guyanese and Jamaican professionals.

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