A NATION’S  health  is of vital importance since it is central to its socio-economic development, for it is only a mentally and physically fit workforce that can perform the many functions that are central to its viability.
The billions invested yearly via the national health  budget, has led to  significantly  transformative and beneficial changes to the state’s health delivery system and it signals that the PPP/C government is underlining its  serious  concern about the nation’s health, particularly treating preventable illnesses.
The recent  collaboration between the

Ministry of Health and the Masjid An Najm, where a medical outreach was taken to the Albouystown ward, must therefore be seen as another step in that important direction, and ought to  be commended for its proactive and visionary approach.
If,  as  the Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Shamdeo Persaud indicated, similar exercises can be carried to the distant areas of Mahdia, Lethem and Mabaruma, it will be a major achievement, even supplementing health facilities already in those areas. Such a strategy will go a very far way in terms of promoting health awareness countrywide, apart from offering  continued assistance to those already under treatment.

To go south, is indeed thoughtful, for it signals that the health of every  citizen in whatever locale  is indeed of  primary concern to the health authorities, and that there is no discrimination  because of  class or social status. All must/will benefit for a healthier nation.