Caught on Camera: Health Ministry’s Engineer Secretly Escorted Chinese Contractors onto Georgetown Hospital Site While Ministry Pretended to Negotiate with VAMED

VAMED Engineering has released to the public photographic evidence strongly suggesting that, by at least November 2025, Guyana’s Ministry of Health was already secretly exploring Chinese contractors to replace VAMED on the Georgetown Maternal and Paediatric Hospital project. Yet for another eight months, the Ministry allowed VAMED to continue construction, invest millions of U.S. dollars of its own money, and work without receiving outstanding payments — all while repeatedly assuring the company that it was negotiating in good faith to resolve the dispute. The government ultimately terminated VAMED’s contracts on July 23, 2026.

Photographs dated November 20, 2025, show representatives wearing the insignia of Chinese contractor SINOMACH entering the site accompanied by personnel from VIKAB Guyana Ltd., the Ministry’s appointed supervising engineer, without VAMED’s knowledge or authorization.

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SINOMACH is the parent company of China CAMC Engineering (CAMCE), which constructed six regional hospitals for the Ministry — at Diamond, Enmore, De Kinderen, Bath, Lima and No. 75 Village — all completed and commissioned in 2025.