Belize City, Belize, October 8, 2020 (PAHO/WHO) – As part of an ongoing efforts to strengthen Belize’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic at ports of entry, the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, previously known as the Development and the Foreign and…
Dr. Luis Felipe Codina, was appointed as the new PAHO/WHO Representative in Guyana effective 2 October 2020. Dr. Codina a national of Peru, obtained both his medical degree (1982) and a diploma for specialization in Pediatrics (1985) from the Escola Paulista de Medicina, Brazil. He has also received a diploma in Health Administration (PROASA) from…
The Pan American Health Organisation was pleased to present Jamaica’s Ministry of Health and Wellness today with a large donation of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to help maintain the health and safety of frontline health workers.
Dr Bernadette Theodore-Gandi, PAHO/WHO representative for Jamaica, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands, handed over…
UPDATE TO PRESS RELEASE ISSUED ON OCTOBER 6, 2020
PAHO/WHO donates extra Oxygen Concentrator Accessories to the Ministry of Health and Wellness for the COVID-19 response
Belize City, Belize, December 23, 2020 UPDATE: The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) donated extra oxygen concentrator accessories to…
In partnership with the Pan-American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), the Government of Canada has provided essential medical equipment to support the Government of Jamaica in its national response to COVID-19.
In a ceremony today, High Commissioner of Canada to Jamaica, Her Excellency Laurie Peters, and PAHO/WHO…
Belize City, Belize, October 5, 2020 (PAHO/WHO) - Through the reorientation of funds from the “Health Sector Support Programme Belize” project, the European Union (EU) and the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) donated 20 fire extinguishers and 19 smoke detectors to the Central Medical Laboratory of the Ministry…
Paramaribo, 4 October 2020 (PAHO/WHO) - PAHO Suriname is supporting nine nurses from Suriname to participate in a month-long introductory course on Critical Care Nursing along with 26 nurses from 5 other countries in the Caribbean – Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Barbados, Dominica and Guyana. The course targets Registered Nurses and will be…
The 30th anniversary of the International Day of the Older Person was recognized on 1 October 2020 and to mark the occasion, an online course was launched in the Virtual Campus of Public Health.
PAHO launched the ACAPEM course (International Accreditation of Competencies in the Care of Older People). The course provides training for health…
On Thursday 17th September 2020, the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) Trinidad and Tobago Country Office handed over ten (10) oxygen concentrators to the Ministry of Health. The oxygen concentrators were purchased through the United Nations COVID-19 Supply Chain, in collaboration with the WHO. This…