BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC -St. Kitts-Nevis Prime Minister Dr. Terrance Drew Friday launched a brand new Caribbean regional well being initiative that he says marks the formalization of a well being partnership between two crucial regional organizations.
Addressing the digital launch of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Well being Company (CARPHA) and the Council of Ministers of Well being of Central America (COMISCA) initiative, Dr. Drew mentioned the collaboration is crucial as a result of the Caribbean faces a number of challenges, together with local weather change, persistent ailments, and non-communicable ailments.
“The CARPHA-COMISCA Collaboration and Cooperation…is a historic second, because it marks the formalization of a well being partnership between two crucial regional organizations.
“The international locations in Central America are our rapid neighbors to the north and are often categorized with the Caribbean for a lot of well being matrices; Latin America and the Caribbean, so it is just becoming that the collaboration in well being is formally established with our lone regional public well being company,” he mentioned.
Prime Minister Drew mentioned that CARPHA is steadfast in its dedication to pursuing an inclusive ‘One Well being’ strategy, leveraging partnerships to fight well being challenges and emergencies within the area.
Dr. Drew, a medical practitioner chargeable for well being throughout the 15-member CARICOM quasi Cupboard, mentioned CARPHA’s major objective is to advance the collective priorities outlined within the Caribbean Cooperation in Well being IV and the United Nations Sustainable Improvement Objectives (SDG).
“On the core of CARPHA’s technique lies a complete partnership coverage delineating the group’s imaginative and prescient, methodology, and requisites to foster collaboration. This coverage goals to domesticate formal partnership relationships, addressing regional public well being priorities and emergencies by means of unified motion and shared providers.”
He mentioned COMISCA serves because the regional discussion board for eight member international locations: Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and the Dominican Republic and is devoted to figuring out and prioritizing regional well being issues.
Prime Minister Drew mentioned CARICOM leaders have already endorsed a regional partnership by means of the ‘Joint Declaration of San Pedro IV Summit of Heads of State and Authorities of the Caribbean Group and the Central American Integration System (SICA).
“Due to this fact, CARPHA and COMISCA’s lengthy historical past of working collectively on a number of points, together with well being, schooling, and catastrophe administration, can strengthen this casual however profitable collaboration.
“The CARPHA-COMISCA Collaboration and Cooperation will formalize this partnership and supply a framework for even larger collaboration sooner or later. That is necessary as a result of the Caribbean faces a number of challenges, together with local weather change, persistent ailments, and non-communicable ailments.”
He mentioned that as the 2 organizations work to treatment the area’s well being challenges, “we guarantee the political directorate that we’ll make sure the wanted advocacy for strategic insurance policies to strengthen our well being programs by means of this collaboration.”
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