The Ministry of Health and Wellness is making an urgent appeal to people who recently frequented a number of areas. “Based on information reaching the Ministry of Health and Wellness that several bars in the Nelson Street, Wellington Street, and Suttle Street areas, as well as on the Spring Garden Highway are associated with a recent cluster of coronavirus (COVID-19 cases), the ministry urges persons who have frequented such establishments within the …
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The Ministry of Health and Wellness will hold an outreach for children at the island’s polyclinics to bring them up-to-date with their immunisations on Saturday, April 10, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the regular childhood immunisation schedule and this activity is aimed at making sure all children receive their regular inoculations to protect them from vaccine preventable diseases.
The outreach will kick start activities leading up to Vaccination Week in the Americas, which runs from Saturday, April 24, to Friday, April 30. It will be held under the theme
Vaccines Bring Us Closer. #GetVax.
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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.
No public disclosures on local hotspots
Article by March 13, 2021
Minister of Health and Wellness Lt Col Jeffrey Bostic is adamant that health authorities will not be publicly disclosing the hot spots for the COVID-19 virus on the island.
Today, Minister Bostic told members of the media at the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO), Dayrell’s Road, Christ Church office where a donation of equipment was made to aid the country’s response to the pandemic, that announcing the communities where there are clusters could lead to people being stigmatized, as was the case during the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
“We tend not to go that route because we want to preserve some level of confidentiality because at the end of the day if the persons in communities do not have confidence in what we are doing and in the system then they may not be willing to come forward and to participate in the various programmes that we are trying to put out there on their behalf,” he said.