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Apr 03, 2019 News
Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence, has given an update on the investigations in the recent spate of illnesses and one death reported in Matthew’s Ridge over the last weekend.
The minister said that while two of the reported cases are still critical, there are improvements in the others.
Despite the “positive signs”, all cases are being monitored closely in the public health system headed by the Georgetown Public Hospital.
“We are working with them; the doctors are very happy with the positive signs they are seeing, and we will continue to inform the people of Guyana with updates of these persons,” Minister Lawrence explained.
According to a release coming out of the Ministry of Public Health on Monday, all the patients with the acute respiratory illness, rash and fever were transferred to GPHC where critical care was provided, and monitoring continues.
“While the specialists continue to work on the seven patients admitted on Saturday, results have shown that two patients tested positive for Leptospirosis which is known to be spread by direct contact with rat urine or faeces.
Further tests are being conducted locally and samples will be sent overseas with support from PAHO and CARPHA to get further tests done to rule out other possible infections,” the release noted.
Meanwhile, the minister said the ultimate goal is to return the community of Matthew’s Ridge to a state of normalcy by ensuring the health centre, and hospital in the area continues to have scheduled clinics.
“The (Matthew’s Ridge) hospital is going to be sanitised and will be up and running; we are working also out of the community centre at present, as we assess the other employees because we are talking about over 200 persons in the mining camp.
“So, we don’t want to have overcrowding. We want to assess those persons separately even as we provide the normal MCH outpatient and so on clinics to the members of the community.”
Minister Lawerence also noted that these illnesses are in no way connected to the current series of outbreaks in the neighbouring country of Venezuela.
“We are just dealing with persons who went into a particular tunnel and that is what we have been able to zero in on and those are the persons that have been affected, no one else in any of the villages there have reported to any of our medical facilities at this point with any of those illnesses.” (DPI)
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