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A Home Nutrition Project was recently launched and commissioned by outgoing Pan American Health Organization Representative to Guyana, Dr. Beverley Barnett,Chile Jersey, at the Port Mourant Health Centre on the Corentyne as part of that facility’s health centre day activities.Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Berbice Regional Health Authority, Dr. Vishwa Mahadeo,Adam Jones Orioles Jersey, praised the health-based initiative and thanked the nurses and doctors at the health centre.A section of the vegetable garden at the Health Centre.Some of the crops grown include boulanger, tomatoes,Authentic NFL Jerseys Wholesale China, cabbage, peppers, corilla,WBC Jerseys 2017, eddoes, and calaloo. “You will also have the nutrition facts,” Mahadeo stated.The general public will benefit from the initiative which will also see persons being educated on how to prepare wholesome foods.“They have taken on the project to make it realistic to you, so that we will be able to use it…Everything that is grown here, you can grow at home and it does not take a lot.”It is hoped that by year end, the project will expand to other health centres, “and hopefully too we will come up with a recipe book from the BRHA.”Another project,NFL Jerseys Outlet From China, the ‘Clean Hands Save Lives Project’, will be launched at the Skeldon Hospital shortly. Guyana, one of the few countries left out, has been registered under this international project,Cheap NFL Jerseys Supply, he stated.“I am very surprised at the changes this health centre has undergone in the last five months.” He stated that in January it was “just an ordinary building but it took great effort from the staff…and more so from the members of the Management Committee and Ministry of Health (MoH) to transform it from a building….in to a quality health centre.”More than 400 bed-ridden patients are visited by the Home-based Care programme.Dr. Barnett charged the health centre staff to educate themselves about the diseases that the various vaccines prevent,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, “because many of us have never seen a case of measles or polio and sometimes we forget about these diseases and their potential complications.”Port Mourant Health Centre has exceeded any other health centre in blood donation by surpassing 100 units. It also surpassed coverage for vaccines.Dr. Barnett received tokens of appreciation from the BRHA in appreciation of her contributions to the health sector in Guyana, especially in Berbice. (Leon Suseran) |
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