With US$32M funding from Hess Corporation, Mount Sinai Hospital is expected to provide massive interventions at Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) in the areas of heart disease and cancer. This is according to Government Advisor and former Health Minister, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy.
In a missive that was published in today’s edition of the Stabroek News, Dr. Ramsammy said the administration is grateful for the critical input made by Hess which used its relationship with Mount Sinai to encourage their global health team to include Guyana in their global work. “We are grateful that Hess as a Mount Sinai donor has identified a significant sum (US$32M) of their donation to Mount Sinai to be assigned for work in Guyana,” Dr. Ramsammy wrote.
He said that Mount Sinai will help Guyana’s health sector accelerate development, including expanding the scope of services provided, improving the quality of care and patient experience, and building human resources, both in management and in technical capacity.
Dr. Ramsammy further noted that major investments in infrastructure and procurement of new technology are planned for the nation’s future while adding that Mount Sinai will provide technical expertise to ensure optimization in these investments.
The Health Advisor noted as well that the need to digitalize data and to integrate electronic medical records is now long-overdue. He highlighted as well that the major deficit in service provision for heart diseases (cardiac) and cancer which the administration is determined to eliminate is a priority area for inputs from Mount Sinai.
Furthermore, Dr. Ramsammy informed readers that the partnership between Guyana and Mount Sinai will require teams to work together on an ongoing basis for the next three years. He explained that the whole administrative and clinical management team for Mount Sinai’s Morningside Hospital will work alongside the management team of GPHC in counterpart arrangements.
In addition to Mount Sinai, he said Guyana is working with other partners such as Northwell, Harvard, Vanderbilt, Columbia University, McMaster University and many, many others. He said these institutions raise their own funds to partner with Guyana and other developing countries.
