{"id":26989,"date":"2025-03-18T15:07:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T15:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=26989"},"modified":"2025-03-18T15:07:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T15:07:30","slug":"minister-of-health-rejects-opposition-claims-on-maternal-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/minister-of-health-rejects-opposition-claims-on-maternal-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister of Health Rejects Opposition Claims on Maternal Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Marlena Willie<\/em><br><em>February 12, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a sitting of the National Assembly on Monday, Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, dismissed allegations from the opposition regarding maternal deaths in Guyana. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The accusations were made by former Health Minister Dr. Karen Cummings, who claimed the Ministry had failed in its prenatal care efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Anthony responded by presenting statistics showing a steady decline in maternal deaths over the past few years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He highlighted that in 2018, there were 20 obstetric deaths, which decreased to 17 in both 2022 and 2023, and further declined to 14 in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, Dr. Anthony rejected claims of maternal deaths at the New Amsterdam and Suddie hospitals, stating that while three maternal deaths occurred in 2025, none took place at those hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister emphasized the significant improvements in the healthcare sector under the current administration and reassured that the government remains committed to investing in building a world-class healthcare system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Marlena WillieFebruary 12, 2025 During a sitting of the National Assembly on Monday, Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, dismissed allegations from the opposition regarding maternal deaths in Guyana.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26989","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=26989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26990,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26989\/revisions\/26990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}