A whole bunch of Caribbean and different nationals on Saturday attended and took part in Caribbean Life’s Well being & Wellness Exposition on the Main R. Owens Well being and Wellness Group Heart on Bedford Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
Greater than 20 distributors participated within the occasion that additionally featured a presentation by LiveOnNY.
In addition to, LiveOnNY, distributors included: CenterLight Healthcare; ERG Medical; Tribeca Pediatrics; Nationwide Blood Clot Alliance; Verizon; CABS Homecare; One Brooklyn Heath; American Most cancers Society; Oak Avenue Well being; OHEL; Healthfirst; NYS Division of Well being; AMAYU Institute; VillageCareMax; Wealth Constructing with Jen; Caribbean Enterprise Connection; Jamaica Nurses Group of NY; MJH Well being System; and S&A Unified.
“I really feel good; I really like doing this,” Michelle Dawkins, senior care supervisor on the Brooklyn-based OHEL advised Caribbean Life. “It brings pleasure to my coronary heart.”
Gigi Mannique, group outreach supervisor at VillageCare in Manhattan, stated: “We’re offering data to the group about well being companies.
“It’s all the time good to work with the group,” she stated. “See what’s doable when healthcare will get private tagline.”
Egypt Bryant, of the Nationwide Blood Clot Alliance for Pulmonary Embolism, stated she was “actually having fun with this, as a result of I’m in a position to educate the group and share my story.”
After introducing LiveOnNY’s presentation, Elizabeth Aloni Schneps, senior vice chairman of occasions at Schneps Media, Caribbean Life’s guardian firm, advised Caribbean Life: “We’re thrilled to deliver the Caribbean group and the well being distributors collectively, and having the ability to educate to assist them dwell more healthy lives.”
Through the presentation, Paula Brown, a Jamaican-born kidney recipient, praised God for His blessings, stating: “Getting this kidney is among the superb issues that may occur to me.
“I used to be in a position to go Canada; and, with out this, I wouldn’t be capable of,” she stated.
Eddie Soto, a Bedford-Stuyvesant resident, stated his son, Nicholas, died on Jun. 20, 2014, and Soto was in a position to donate Nicholas’s kidney.
“LiveOnNY has been very useful,” he advised the presentation. “It solely takes thrice to say sure; it solely takes one individual (to donate a kidney to).”
Shani Audain — group and authorities affairs liaison on the Lengthy Island Metropolis, Queens-based LiveOnNY, whose father hails from Trinidad and Tobago – disclosed that her sister is a kidney donor.
“We transport the organ,” she added. “This can be a closely and really regulated course of.”
Ayesha Khan, a pediatric dental resident at One Brooklyn Well being, advised Caribbean Life that it was “good to take part in group occasions.
“It’s very rewarding to teach individuals on their oral well being,” she stated.
Haitian Guenor Destine, account supervisor at CenterLight, stated his insurance coverage firm covers “all over-the-counter gadgets without cost.
“This can be a hands-on plan,” he stated. “This can be a superb profit for our group.”
Sitting on the American Most cancers Society desk, Annette Spellen, a lung most cancers survivor, stated “the group wants this.
“They should learn about these occasions about well being,” she added.
Brooklyn resident Nathalia Delpeche, the daughter of Haitian immigrants and a breast most cancers survivor, who sat on the identical desk, stated: “It’s essential to know and get entangled”, including that the choices that elected officers make affect the group’s well being.
Spellen and Delpeche’s colleague, the Rev. Anthony Sandusky, initially from Lexington, Kentucky, who at the moment resides in Washington Heights in Higher Manhattan, disclosed that he had an aunt who died inside two years of being identified with most cancers in 2018.
He was impressed with the turn-out on the well being exposition.
“It’s empowering to see so many people from the group, who’re involved about their well being and wellness, and studying what they’ll do be to be wholesome,” Rev. Sandusky added.
In representing NYState of Well being, Elvis Nunez stated he felt “alive.”
“I like to do what I do,” he stated. “I present medical health insurance by means of the NYState of Well being. It might be low-cost or no-cost medical health insurance.”
Maha Attieh, who additionally represented NYState of Well being, chimed in: “We love serving the group to present details about medical health insurance and provides data to totally different applications.”
US Military veteran and Brooklyn resident Alice S., who most popular that her final title not be used, stated that she felt “nice taking part on this occasion.”
Vincentian Betty Trent introduced alongside her Brooklyn-born daughter, Anya Trent, to the occasion.
“It thought it was very attention-grabbing,” Betty stated. “I feel the group wants this well being expo. I really like the distributors.
“The organ donation speak, it made me wish to enroll simply in case, as a result of it might be a member of the family,” she added. “I used to be very impressed.”
Anya shared related views.
“It’s good for the group to get data and totally different sources,” she stated in regards to the well being and wellness exposition. “There’s a number of data individuals don’t know. So, individuals come collectively to get sources. Lots of people listed here are from the group.”
Haitian Saindyse Germain, proprietor of Germain Consulting Companies in Brooklyn, which offers healthcare consulting to organizations, described the occasion as “superb, well-organized, nice sources for the group.”
