– represents PAHO support to Public Health MinistryAn order of 10,Wholesale NFL Jerseys,000 doses of the H1N1 vaccine is on its way to Guyana to aid the Public Health Ministry’s effort to combat the virus. The Ministry was able to secure support from the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) to order the vaccines, according to Chief Medical Officer,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, Dr. Shamdeo Persaud.The PAHO-spearheaded forum in session yesterday.Dr. Persaud was at the time speaking at a forum held at the PAHO,CHeap NFL Jerseys China, Brickdam, Georgetown, office yesterday. He asserted that “one of the critical forms of support through PAHO is that they have assisted us with our vaccines…and we are expecting (the H1N1) vaccines shortly, I understand. PAHO has been more than a partner to us; it is a part of the Ministry”.But according to PAHO Resident Representative, Dr. William Adu-Crow, there has unfortunately been a delay in the arrival of vaccines to tackle the prevailing H1N1 health threat.“For some reason when things happen, strange things also happen…The vaccine is moving from place to place; it has been shipped already, it’s just that it has not reached here as yet,cheap nfl jerseys, so we hope to soon get that,” the PAHO Representative related.Since the recent emergence of the virus, which is commonly referred to as swine flu because of its origin among pigs, one related death has been confirmed. But according to Dr. Persaud, the Public Health Ministry has not reported any other positive case since.But Dr. Persaud noted that “we continue to maintain surveillance. We have been tracking (cases) and there are some samples that have been reported on.” He disclosed yesterday,Cheap NFL Jerseys, too, that currently the Ministry is awaiting the return of the results of two batches of samples that were sent to the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) in Trinidad for testing.“We have had suspicious cases with similar kinds of presentation and so on,” said Dr. Persaud, as he revealed that elderly folks might be among the most vulnerable in the population.“We have had a lot of elderly people going into hospitals developing pneumonia and dying…We are testing these elderly people now because some of these might be related to the emerging strains of the influenza.”Some of the symptoms of the virus are cough, fever, sore throat, stuffy or runny nose, body aches,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, chills and fatigue.The CMO is confident that a wide cross-section of the population is already immunised against the H1N1 virus. Following an outbreak of the virus in 2009, the Health Ministry had delivered about 120,000 doses of vaccines to the population.“That is a very specific vaccine for that influenza virus, and my knowledge indicates you will be protected against the particular strain for maybe about 10 years,” he related.According to Dr. Persaud, the viral influenza is predominantly spread by direct contact with persons who are infected.“Most of the time it is spread by droplets… Those droplets can get on the hands, they can get on door handles, car seats, in public transportation and pretty much everywhere…So one of the principal things that we are encouraging everyone to do, including health workers, is to wash your hands as frequently as you can.”According to the CMO, taking hygienic precautions could in fact reduce the likelihood of a person being infected with the H1N1 virus by as much as 99 per cent.“There is a small chance you can get it from the air, but most infection is through direct contact,” Dr. Persaud asserted.The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported that most human infections have been mild and the virus usually is not spread to other people.

The fact that Guyana is part of a global village must be taken into consideration even when the issue of tertiary education is considered. This is the conviction of President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), Clinton Urling.He was at the time commenting on the quality of lecturers at the University of Guyana. He noted that “from what I have heard the quality is poor with a few exceptions, and the exceptions are persons who basically want to give back to Guyana and they serve pro bono here…they receive some money but basically it is pro bono,Cheap NFL Jerseys China Wholesale,” said Urling.GCCI’s President, Clinton UrlingHe speculated that there are a number of persons who graduate with a first degree and opt to lecture; a state of affairs he claims does not obtain at most universities.“That simply doesn’t happen at some Universities and we are talking about the quality of the entire programme of the University,” said Urling as he spoke of the need for improvement of the quality of education at the local tertiary institution.He said that at most universities it is required that lecturers have at least a Master’s Degree and not a First Degree.Moreover, the quality of lecturers, Urling said, must be seen as a matter of concern and therefore must be addressed through increased funding; which he believes must be plugged into the university perhaps through increased tuition fees,China Jerseys, to attract better qualified lecturers.He conjectured that adequately qualified persons would not choose to return to the university to lecture. “I am an academic by heart, not by profession, but if I had to choose I wouldn’t go to the University of Guyana; I wouldn’t do it based on them paying me $100,000 a month, or whatever it is, when we live in a global village. That is something that we need also to take into perspective.”According to Urling, highly qualified individuals would more than likely prefer to offer their services at institutions such as the University of the West Indies where they would be paid a salary that could afford them a better living standard.Urling’s view about the improvement of the quality of education was in fact on par with that of the Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana,Cheap Authentic Jerseys, Professor Jacob Opadeyi, who had publicly disclosed that “if you want quality degrees you will pay for it; nobody gets quality for free! If students can’t pay for it somebody got to pay for it; either the private sector or scholarships, somebody got to pay for it.”He was at the time seeking to justify plans in the pipelines to increase tuition costs at the tertiary institution even as he alluded to the need for qualified lecturers who would have attained Bachelor’s,Cheap Jerseys, Master’s and Doctorate degrees.“Somebody has to pay them for that. If you don’t want to pay them for that then you will get low quality teachers.? How can you get a good lawyer to come and teach law in this university? You have to pay that person to stop all practices and come and teach here.If you want a good medical doctor to teach here you have to pay that person to stop all private practices…and somebody got to pay for it,Jerseys NFL Cheap,” he asserted.He proposed a hike in tuition fees as the way forward even as efforts are also made to improve the facilities and services all of which he noted cost money.According to Professor Opadeyi, money should not be raised through begging but rather through the services that are being sold.“What are the services that we are selling at this university? We are selling education…we are selling a certificate. For the Vice Chancellor to sign that this person has a BSc it means that the Vice Chancellor has received the cheque for the work that was put in to get that degree,Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys,” said the Vice Chancellor as he reiterated the need for a hike in fees.