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Dr Yitades Gebre (left), PAHO and WHO representative to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, presenting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health Janet Phillips with one of the packages, as Minister of Health Jeffrey Bostic looks on. (Picture by Lennox Devonish.) Social Share
The Ministry of Health has received another US$1 452 091 worth of medical equipment to help with contact tracing and personal protective equipment (PPE) for those on the front line of the COVID-19 fight.
It came from the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) yesterday, as Dr Yitades Gebre, PAHO and World Health Organisation representative to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, urged countries to continue with health measures, inclusive of the vaccine, to stem the spread of the virus.