Some 15 children have died of COVID-19 since Guyana confirmed its first imported case back in March 2020. Most of the children had co-morbidities, Health Minister, Dr Frank Anthony said today.
“We continue to monitor and try to decipher what is causing the deaths. For some of those children that would have been hospitalised, we know for sure some of the comorbidities that they have had and the challenges, because some of them, the prognosis was poor with their underlying diseases and then they got COVID, so that complicated the problem,” Dr. Anthony said on Monday.
Over the last few days, four children were reported to have died of COVID-19. Dr Anthony said the ministry is currently investigating those deaths.
“We would have seen the four deaths of children and this is something we will do some further investigation on, because of the four, three of the children arrived at the hospital, they were dead before arrival to the hospital,” Dr. Anthony said.
He explained that, “Within the ministry we have a small committee of doctors who are going to get those charts and review them more thoroughly and do some interviews with the family of these children, so hopefully that will give us a better understanding of what is happening.”
