{"id":26698,"date":"2025-02-20T21:42:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T21:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=26698"},"modified":"2025-02-20T21:43:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T21:43:00","slug":"govt-secures-pandemic-fund-for-future-preparedness-health-budget-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/govt-secures-pandemic-fund-for-future-preparedness-health-budget-approved\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t Secures Pandemic Fund for Future Preparedness; Health Budget Approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>February 5, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Parliamentary Committee of Supply resumed its review of the 2025 budget estimates this morning, focusing on the Ministry of Health&#8217;s allocation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the session, Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony announced that the government had successfully secured a grant of 15 million US dollars from the Pandemic Fund, aimed at preparing Guyana for potential future pandemics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pandemic Fund was established in response to the challenges faced by countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Anthony explained that the funds would be used to develop a robust surveillance system, transitioning it from paper-based methods to an electronic system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The surveillance scope will also expand to include animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to pandemic preparedness, the Committee of Supply approved a budget of 121 billion dollars for the Ministry of Health in 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This includes the completion and commissioning of a paediatric and maternity hospital at Ogle, along with the completion of six regional hospitals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The opposition raised concerns regarding the timeline for the opening of these hospitals, to which Dr. Anthony responded that the first hospital would be operational within the next four months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further allocations include 4.3 billion dollars for medical equipment and 28 billion for the purchase of medical drugs and supplies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry also plans to invest in the training of more healthcare professionals to enhance the country&#8217;s healthcare capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 5, 2025 The Parliamentary Committee of Supply resumed its review of the 2025 budget estimates this morning, focusing on the Ministry of Health&#8217;s allocation. During the session, Health Minister&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26699,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26698\/revisions\/26699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}