April 2010 - File photos

March 2010 - File Photos

Feb. 2010 - File photos

 Photos from top to bottom:

1. A teenage cancer patient flown home to Paramakatoi village; 
2. Mashramani float parade with Lethem hospital; 
3. Two centrifuges provided to Dr Lucy Spellman and the Karanambu vet program; 
4. The RPH team preparing to depart for the deep south of the Rupununi with Eye care Guyana in partnership.

RPH links with women's health program and MOH to demonstrate health team in Yupukari.

A team including doctors and volunteers from Guyana, North Carolina, Minnesota, and Oxford University loaded onto the RAM Bedford truck, pictured above departing Lethem Public Hospital, to provide HIV testing and education services along with a multi-disciplined medical clinic.

Activities included:

• Village council meeting
• Community-wide 'edutainment' event including video presentations.
• Confidential HIV testing and counceling
• GYN services including pap smears and pelvic exams
• General Medical clinic
• MOH administrative review of village health post.
• 'Marundoi' listening and review session with primary school.
• Documentation of special-needs children.

The RAM women's health team had a full schedule with a couple of 14 hour days at the Lethem clinic and following the Yupukari mission an early departure to the Upper Mazaruni district of Region 7.  Using the organization's aircraft and boat assistance from the Kamarang Hospital, they were able to follow up with previously screened women in every community for the prevention of cervical cancer.