Since 2020, the Government of Guyana has committed to providing annual cash grants of $600,000 to each citizen requiring haemodialysis treatment. This replaces the previous, one-off cash grant of $360,000 which previously existed.
This initiative has significantly increased accessibility to dialysis treatment, with 63 patients benefiting in 2020 and then 129 in 2021.In 2022, some 326 benefitted and that number drastically increased to 428 in 2023.
In this year’s budget, GY$360,000,000 has been allocated for the continuation of this project, with 600 patients expected to benefit.
Beneficiaries can easily access the grant through the Ministry of Health’s Medical Treatment Department. This initiative effectively reduces the financial strain on dialysis patients from across the 10 administrative regions, thereby ensuring that they access the much-needed treatment required for persons with kidney (renal) failure.
If a person has Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), the kidneys are unable to filter the blood to remove harmful waste products and excess fluids which are turned into urine to be passed out of the body. Dialysis treatment then becomes an alternative procedure to remove waste products and excess fluids from the blood when the kidneys stop working properly. It is a process that involves diverting blood to a machine to be cleaned.
Dialysis centres
Public Centres:
- Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation
- Public Hospital Suddie (5G Dialysis)
Private Centres
- Doobay – Gafoors Medical and Research Centre
- Ameena Gafoor Medical and Research Centre Inc. – Parika
- Biomed Energy & Dialysis Inc. -Woodlands
- Biomed Energy & Dialysis Inc.- Anamayah
- New Hope Dialysis Centre
- Dr. Balwant Singh’s Hospital
