Report finds 280 cases of duplicationThe Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is currently treating with the report on the Fingerprint Cross Matching (FCM) exercise, which was undertaken to check whether duplicate registration transactions took place during the 2008 House-to-House Registration exercise.The FCM exercise involved the cross matching of the fingerprints of?430,746 persons, who were registered during the 2008 House-to-House Registration exercise, against each other.??This exercise was conducted by Cogent Systems, through De La Rue of the United Kingdom, and under the auspices of the United States Agency for International Development.Cogent?Systems is a leading international provider of Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS) based in California, United States of America.The report on the FCM exercise shows the existence of 280 cases of ‘genuine’ duplicate registration transactions and 84 ‘suspected’ duplicate registration transactions.??The latter category is classified as ‘suspected’ because the fingerprints were not of the desired quality to facilitate adequate cross matching.According to GECOM’s Public Relations Officer, Vishnu Persaud, upon receipt of the report of the FCM exercise, the Commission’s Secretariat immediately commenced internal investigations of the 280 cases of ‘genuine’ duplicates and the 84 ‘suspected’ duplicates.This was done to determine why the duplicate transactions occurred.??The investigations involved referring to the originals of the respective Application for Registration forms, and the relevant source documents which were used in support of the applications for registration.The investigations involved the conduct of statistical analyses of both of the reported categories of duplicate registrations.The statistical analysis of the “genuine” duplicate registrations found that 227 of the reported 280 ‘genuine’ duplicate registrations were confirmed internally as involving the same registrant, while 50 have been confirmed as involving two ‘different individuals.’Three of the reported 280 duplicate registrations could not be confirmed via examination of the respective RO1 Forms and the relevant source documents.These will be further investigated by the respective applicants being summoned to appear in person before GECOM Officials to determine the validity of the transactions. 132 of the reported 280 duplicate registrations were from different Registration Areas and 15 were of different addresses.The 63 of the 280 duplicate registrations were from different Registration Divisions,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, while 20 were of different biographic data.Of the reported 84 “suspected” duplicate registrations 57 have been confirmed internally as involving the same registrant, and 53 of the reported 84 duplicate registrations were found to be from different Registration Areas.Ten of the reported 84 duplicate registrations were from different Registration Divisions, 2 were of different addresses, eleven are of different bio data,Cheap Jerseys USA, and 24 of the reported 84 duplicate registrations are associated with different individuals. One of the 84 duplicate registrations could not be confirmed via examination of the respective RO1 Forms and the relevant source documents.This too will have to be further investigated by the respective applicants being summoned to appear in person before GECOM officials to determine the validity of the transaction.According to Persaud, the findings of the statistical analyses were presented to the Commission and were discussed at the GECOM Statutory Meeting held on March 24,Authentic Jerseys From China, 2009,cheap nfl jerseys, with the objective of bringing the new National Register of Registrants Database (NRRDB) to finality.The failure by persons who are summoned in cases of duplicate registrations to present themselves as summoned will result in the transactions being cancelled.Persons affected as a result of such action(s) will have to reapply for registration during a future Cycle of Continuous Registration or during the mandatory Claims and Objections exercise associated with an election, providing they meet the eligibility requirements.A list of persons whose transactions are to be cancelled because of their involvement in duplicate registrations must be submitted to the Commission.??Accordingly, the transactions of persons associated with any of the categories of duplicate registrations will not be deleted without the approval of the Commission.The particulars of persons whose transactions have been cancelled will be published in the print media after the cancellations would have been made.The fingerprints of those persons who are listed among the ‘suspected’ must be retaken.??These will be su

Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dr. Shamdeo Persaud, has confirmed receipt of a letter of complaint from the parents of 11-month-old Reuel Albert who passed away earlier this year at the Region One, Port Kaituma Hospital.Chief Medical Officer,Cheap Baseball Jerseys, Dr. Shamdeo PersaudDr. Persaud said that he received a written complaint from the parents and assured that “we will respond to the family accordingly once a final decision is made.”He informed that since learning of the child’s demise he had requested that reports from the relevant officials be forwarded to his office.? “I have received those very recently and I am in the process of evaluating those to see what will be the next step, to see if there is any reason to believe there was malpractice or misconduct on the part of the health workers (but) as far as I see there weren’t any,Cheap NFL Jerseys China,” asserted the CMO.However, the parents – Robin Albert and Onica Atkinson – are convinced that their son could have still been alive if earlier moves were made to evacuate him to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation. The child who was initially diagnosed with a heavy cold passed away at the Port Kaituma airstrip while awaiting a medical evacuation on April 28, 2015.A post mortem examination conducted on the child’s remains revealed that the cause of death was pneumonia.The senior Albert who was so perturbed by his son’s death shared a detailed chronology ofReuel Albert moments before he died.his son’s hospitalisation period with this publication, as he stressed his belief that enough was not done to save his only child’s life.According to Albert, the attending doctor had even related at one point that he wasn’t even aware of what was wrong with the child.The man recalled that “they bore my son up about 20 times trying to get a vein…even the doctor boring and boring and the nurses boring and boring and can’t find a vein…it was hard to watch what they do me son,Wholesale Jerseys China,” said Albert who disclosed that the nurses’ inability to find a vein seemed to frustrate the doctor. “He started saying he ain’t even know what wrong with this child and how he gon transfer him to Mabaruma (hospital),” added the man who said that he instead asked of the doctor to transfer his child to the GPHC.The man said that while the doctor eventually agreed to transfer the child to Georgetown, he noted that the case was not being treated as an emergency.It wasn’t until the child developed a breathing problem,NFL Jerseys Cheap, Albert noted that the infant was administered oxygen and his case deemed an emergency.? “Suddenly the doctor say prepare to medevac the child…by then he couldn’t breathe,” disclosed Albert.But according to the CMO, the approach that the public health system embraces for dealing with such cases is one where the district doctor is expected to remain in contact with the Paediatric Unit at the GPHC. “If the child is under one (year old) they (the attending doctor) would talk with doctors in the (GPHC) Paediatric Unit and give them a description of what is going on…after which they would decide on whether a transfer is important,” said Dr. Persaud.As such,Cheap China Jerseys, he pointed out that a decision to transfer an ailing child is not only based on the decision of the attending doctor. “This is a bad impression parents are having…it is not a case where you see a child and you don’t know what is going on and you transfer the child.Dr. Persaud had also earlier disclosed that an investigation is on-going to a point where it was at the level of a Child Health Committee. He had revealed that once he had received the relevant documents relating to the child’s death,Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic, efforts will be focused on a comprehensive review.“That is why these things take a little while and it isn’t always easy to get all of the relevant information,” added Dr. Persaud.