Phase Two of MOH Wellness Warriors programme commences

THE Ministry of Health on Tuesday commenced the second phase of the one-week Wellness Warriors training programme, at the Foreign Affairs Institute, Shiv Chanderpaul Drive, Georgetown.

The programme will seek to target about 50 youths, mainly senior students and persons from the West Coast of Berbice, who wrote the CSEC exam.
Minister of Health, Dr. Bheri Ramsaran in his address to the youths, stated that this programme was implemented to teach young persons and make them aware of Chronic Non- Communicable Diseases (CNDCs), and also to enable them to counter these diseases and test for them.
Minister Ramsaran also stated that CNDCs are one the main causes of death or illness and that 80% of deaths are caused by CNDCs.
According to Minister Ramsaran, the chairman of the CNDC commission will be the President H.E. Donald Ramotar, so the commission will therefore be looked at from a Presidential perspective.
He also noted that other ministries will be co-operating in order to execute this programme.
At the end of the programme, the minister expects that these students would be able to go into their old schools or other schools and make other youths aware of CNDCs and these youths will also be able to test persons’ blood pressure and blood sugar levels.
The minister said that they won’t be considered as doctors or nurses, but at the end of the programme, they would be able to call themselves community health workers.
In closing, Minister Ramsaran announced that the President will launch the CNCDs commission as well as the Wellness Warriors programme.
These launchings will be graced by the presence of the Head of the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) regional office and also other international health figures.
The Wellness Warriors is expected to be one of the largest youth organisations in Guyana, because as it advances, co-operation from other organisations is expected to be rendered.

 

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