Caribbean North Charities Foundation 2.38

Caribbean North Charities Foundation (originally Guyana Burn & Healthcare Charitable Foundation) was established in 1998 in response to the lack of adequate medical care for burn victims in Guyana and the Caribbean. Since then, the foundation has raised money and equipment in Canada to create the Guyana Burn Care Unit, the first of its kind in the Caribbean where patients can receive proper medical attention and skin reconstruction.

The organization is also involved with non-burn related healthcare. We have developed a program to educate Guyanese nurses on neonatal care for at-risk newborns in accordance with the Canadian Paediatric Society’s standards. The GBHCF has also sent medical equipment such as beds, mattrsses, IV pumps and ECG machines to hospitals in Guyana.

All equipment is generously donated by our major partner, the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.