map | CNIS in Guyana | safer communities
- Population: 772,298
- Population growth: 0.2% per year
- Life expectancy at birth: 66.7 years
- Fertility rate: 2.0 children/woman
- Maternal mortality ratio: 93/100,000 live births
- 48 physicians per 100,000 people
- Ranked 73rd by the Economist Unit’s Index of Democracy
- Ranked 114th by the UN Human Development Report
- Rates of infant/child mortality are more than double the average for Latin America and the Caribbean
CNIS in Guyana
- CNIS began teaching in Guyana in 2006
- CNIS supports the work of the Canadian Association of General Surgeons (CAGS) in Guyana
- CNIS offers Trama Team Training (TTT) courses
- Guyana was part of the first intercontinental TTT course in 2009
Safer Communities Program
CNIS works to secure safer communities in Georgetown, Guyana through courses for health practitioners at instructor and provider levels.
CNIS has supported Canadian Association of General Surgeons (CAGS) project in Guyana since 2006 with the introduction of with Trauma Team Training (TTT). The purpose of the course is to ensure that all personnel shares the same basic understanding and can work together efficiently and effectively.
In October 2006, Dr. Cameron of McMaster University, Hamilton, ON and Dr. Madan Rambaran of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) invited CNIS to conduct a Trauma Team Training (TTT) course in the capital, Georgetown. CNIS provided the Trauma Team Training (TTT) equipment. Initiated by Dr. Robert Taylor, the project was headed by Dr. Cameron, while the Guyanese team was led by Dr. Madan Rambaran. CNIS objective was to provide Guyanese surgeons with the ability to conduct TTT providers courses the following three years independently of CNIS. The TTT instructors course was followed by a Providers course for five hospital teams in Georgetown. Medical students from the University of Guyana volunteered as trauma victims for the final exams.
In 2009, CNIS conducted two TTT instructors courses at Georgetown Public Hospital to maintain Trauma Team Training in Guyana. Dr. Ronald Lett conducted the instructors refresher course and an instructors course, giving Guyana 18 certified instructors for the next three years. The newly certified Guyanese instructors offered a providers course to multi-disciplinary teams from emergency departments in Georgetown, Linden, New Amsterdam, West Demerara and Suddie, hence providing Trauma Team Training throughout Guyana.
In November 2009, 3 surgeons in Guyana partook in the first CNIS intercontinental TTT instructor course held in Vancouver. The course was successfully liked to Guyana through Skype and web cam.
A formal evaluation of the TTT course is being conducted by Julie Pemberton of McMaster University, determining the reliability of our measurement instruments, and the intermediate impact of the course on knowledge, technical skills and team management.
Our TTT courses in Guyana are made possible through the cooperation with Canadian Association of General Surgeons (CAGS) and the continued support of Dr. Brian Cameron from McMaster University.
