Guyana Healthcare
The petition

Baby Athena didn't have to die.

She was born in a hospital too overwhelmed to save her. The hospital that could have is sitting unfinished a few miles away. This is how we change that.

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Her story

Twelve hours, and the help never came.

Nelissa Chetram spent more than twelve hours in labour at the Georgetown Public Hospital. She asked for an emergency C-section again and again. It never came in time. Her womb ruptured, her daughter Athena did not survive, and Nelissa lost her uterus.

She asked for a C-section many times. But she never got it.
A system at breaking point

Athena's death was not a freak accident.

Guyana still carries one of the highest maternal death rates in the Caribbean, close to double the regional average. The main hospital handles thousands of births a year with ageing equipment and too few specialists.

112maternal deaths per 100,000 births
~23infant deaths per 1,000 births
The solution already exists

The hospital that answers this is nearly built.

A specialist Mother and Child hospital for Georgetown was designed to end exactly this: modern delivery suites, dedicated maternity care, and a neonatal intensive care unit. It stands nearly finished, then stalled. It can be completed within a year once Guyana says yes.

VAMED+WWH is building this hospital.
The ask

Add your name. Finish the hospital.

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