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- ↑ "Medical Information on French Guyana" (PDF). US Embassy. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
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- ↑ "Centre Hospitalier de Kourou : établissement hospitalier de la Guyane". CH-Kourou (in French). Retrieved 10 May 2020.
- ↑ "Centre Hospitalier de l'Ouest Guyanais". GCS Guyasis (in French). Retrieved 10 May 2020.
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- ↑ Patrice Bouree; Alireza Ensaf (May 2015). "The Saint-Laurent du Maroni hospital in Guyana". La Revue du praticien (in French). 65.
- ↑ "Le nouveau Centre Hospitalier de Saint-Laurent ouvre ses portes le 27 septembre". France TV Info (in French). Retrieved 23 May 2021.