Health Minister–Testing sites are open on the weekends

Health Minister, Dr. Frank Anthony, is urging more persons to get tested for COVID-19 on the
weekends as testing sites are open to the public for both testing and vaccination on Saturdays and
Sundays.
Dr. Anthony made this disclosure during Monday’s COVID-19 update. “We are doing testing on
the weekends. Unfortunately, we don’t see a lot of people coming on weekends to be either
tested or vaccinated, so we have a number of sites that are open on the weekends,” the Minister
said.
Dr. Anthony said that fixed vaccination sites have been established in all regions across Guyana,
with more mobile sites established in hinterland regions. The health minister continues to appeal
to persons to visit any vaccination site and get inoculated with two doses of a COVID-19
vaccine along with a booster at the appropriate time.
Meanwhile, Minister Anthony said while the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)
grapples with COVID-19, it has not affected the delivery of service to citizens.  “So, while we
have some staff that are positive, that’s not going to affect the services that we deliver and it’s
not only for GPHC, we have put those mitigation measures in place for all the hospitals and
health centers across the country,” Minister Anthony explained.

Dr. Anthony noted that measures have been put in place to manage the services of the hospital,
when infected healthcare workers are isolated. “We have put mechanisms in place at GPHC to be
able to manage the services so when people go off, if they have tested positive, they have to
isolate, so we have put contingency in place to deal with that,” he said.
The minister noted further that persons in home isolation are being monitored by healthcare
officials within the regions in which they reside. “We had decentralised the monitoring of people
so each region has their own responsibility for monitoring the persons within their region, so
they have been checking in on those persons,” he stated.
Minister Anthony also said there are staff members available to monitor the status of persons in
Region Four.