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As part of the Guyana Safer Injection Project (GSIP), aimed at preventing the medical transmission of HIV by reducing unsafe and inappropriate injections in Guyana, Berbice may now be able to better manage destruction of high risk medical wastes.Recently, Deputy Chief of Mission of the US Embassy, Karen Williams, joined with local health officials to commission the second “De Montfort” style incinerator at the medical institution. To the tune of US$5,000 ($1Million) the incinerator will provide the medical institution and nearby clinics access to proper disposal of medical waste.Supporting the exercise is the Port Mourant hospital.It will also decrease the number of sharps that are buried or thrown out to sea and will also limit the incidence of accidental contact with sharps (Syringes).At the commissioning ceremony, Ms. Williams said humanitarian assistance is the Embassy’s “top mission,” with “more money and resources” going into humanitarian projects than into any other area of the Embassy’s endeavors.Embassy humanitarian personnel distribute school supplies to students of Kumu Primary School, LethemUnder the PEPFAR initiative, attempts are made to “have as many multiplier effects as we can, to improve the overall health care distribution systems and quality of care throughout Guyana, as part of the campaign against HIV/AIDS,” Williams said.She said, too,wholesale jerseys china, that efforts are also being made to “fight the other maladies that affect the citizens of Guyana”. The GSIP Incinerator project is part of that group of “best projects that have multiple effects.”Dr. Ashok Sookdeo, Director of Environmental Health Unit, Ministry of Health, expressed gratitude to the “HAP for funding the incinerator project and GSIP for their collaborative role.”Dealing with medical waste at the rural and far reaching areas is of utmost concern to the Ministry of Health and Dr Sookeo said “this incinerator gives our medical waste management plan a tremendous boost in the management and treatment of waste, particularly sharps.”He disclosed that the equipment “can burn eight sharp boxes per hour” and expressed the hope that the device “would be properly utilised.” Audrey Anderson,DJ LeMahieu Rockies Jersey, Chief of Party of GSIP, in her overview,NFL Jerseys Sale, said that the high point of the project is that it provided the opportunity to “collaborate with another agency to actually have something in place to assist the existing [New Amsterdam hospital] incinerator to manage waste sharps.”She explained that with a new incinerator at the Port Mourant hospital, sharps from the Upper Corentyne can be taken care of right there, reducing “distance and transportation costs” and greatly benefitting the region.A team from the US Embassy’s Humanitarian Assistance Programme (HAP) supervised the construction of the incinerator.The first incinerator was commissioned back in February at the Bartica Hospital.Medical OutreachesIn other humanitarian ventures, HAP provided funding for two Volunteer Service Overseas (VSO) Optometrists and two Guyanese Refractionists to provide eye care to residents of Baramita in Mabaruma, Region One.  About 400 people were screened, treated and provided with spectacles.The initiative was a collaborative effort between the Humanitarian Assistance Programme (HAP); Volunteer Services Overseas (VSO); Regional Administrative and Health Officials and community volunteers.And in collaboration with DaSilva’s House of Optic, HAP provided free eye care services for residents of Wakenaam Island, Essequibo River in Region Three.With no Optometrist at the cottage hospital, those suffering with glaucoma, cataracts, and other eye-related ailments do not receive adequate and proper medical care.  With funding from HAP and expertise from DaSilva’s House of Optic,Johnny Bench Reds Jersey, patients received appropriate diagnoses and referrals to receive advanced care at a later date.The HAP team also presented school kits to primary school students in Kumu and Moco Moco areas of Lethem, Region Nine.The kits comprised backpacks, provided by PEPFAR with a HIV/AIDS safety message and school supplies of notebooks, pencils,Kris Jenkins College Jersey, pens, rulers,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, pencil sharpeners etc. Residents welcomed the HAP team warmly and the team looks forward to continuing collaboration with the Region.