In April 2008 Bandage International made their first trip to Guyana, South America as a result of an invitation received from Mr Dmitri Nicholson of Youth Challenge Guyana while attending the White House Conference in July 2007.

Bandage International trained a group of 20 participants a 3 day Wilderness Responder Course outside Georgetown, Guyana.  The group consisted of participants from the Ministry of Health, Youth Challenge Guyana and several smaller groups and tour guides. Dr. Paul Doucette is shown teaching a group of participants how to properly manage a patient who has a neck or back injury.

The rate of Heart Disease and Stroke is on a steady climb in Guyana although there is very little education available to people to learn about these conditions.  Up to date CPR courses and training sessions are very hard to come by in Guyana. Edmonton Paramedic Amy Hassen is shown leading a group of participants though an intense CPR course where they learned how to preform CPR for Adults, Children and Infants.  This training day also included how to treat a patient that has an airway obstruction from food or another foreign item.

Guyana is very rich in tropical rainforest.  Along with that comes a variety of lethal snakes and insects, and the false myths about how to treat someone who has been bitten by one. Dr. John Gillis is shown explaining to a group how to treat someone correctly if they have be bitten by a snake.  One myth he was presented with was to actually suck the poison out of the person with your mouth and spit it out.  He quickly made it clear to everyone that this could also be deadly and explained why.