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New national disease-tracking system coming
(Kaieteur News) – Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, announced on Tuesday that Guyana is developing a modern, integrated surveillance system capable of tracking diseases affecting both humans and animals, an effort aimed at detecting outbreaks earlier and strengthening national health security.
Speaking at the launch of the Guyana Digital Training Health Institute, the minister noted that the government through the ministry is bringing onboard different types of software and platforms to provide modern healthcare services.
Minister of Health, Frank Anthony
He shared that currently they are working on developing a surveillance system that would track both infectious and non-medical diseases across the country. “We have been better at doing infectious diseases, but we now want to have a combined system where we can track both infectious, non-medical diseases across this country, and so we can see real time data of what is happening in different parts of our country,” he stated.
Similarly, the health minister mentioned that they are working with the Ministry of Agriculture to be able to track diseases in the animal population, which would be shared on one platform. “So, if there’s any disease in the animal population that we feel will have a potential to jump into the population, then we must be able to detect these outbreaks early,” he added.
According to the minister, the surveillance system they are building will be funded through the Pandemic Fund and the World Bank. “So, there are many new applications that we’re putting in place, and the students that we’re training we are going to give them a wide range of skills so that they will be able to work with these different types of software and platforms that we’re using,” he said on Tuesday.
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