No power in Guyana; How health services suffer in Guyana:
The acquisition of reliable and affordable power poses a challenge to many health facilities.
- In Guyana the PEPFAR program and the Ministry of Health (MOH) requested USAID assistance in assessing options for improving energy services in health facilities.
- Full service district hospitals located on the coast suffer from expensive, unreliable, and poor quality power.
- District hospitals located in the interior face similar problems compounded by the fact that the power is intermittent, of worse quality, and from a variety of expensive sources.
- Hinterland health centers often have no energy at all.
- The expensive cost of electricity in Guyana makes the long-term operating costs of power intensive health care facilities currently under construction significant.
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