Bridgetown, Barbados, 9 October 2020 (PAHO/WHO) - Message by PAHO/WHO Representative for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean Countries, Dr Yitades Gebre.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a call to countries to focus on increased investment in mental health as we recognize World Mental Health Day being celebrated…
Bridgetown, Barbados, 08 October 2020 (PAHO/WHO) - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) collaborated to orient participants on the International Classification of Disease, tenth edition (ICD-10) coding for COVID-19 mortality.
This second orientation session brought together fifty-eight (58)…
Belize City, Belize, October 8, 2020 (PAHO/WHO) – As part of an ongoing efforts to strengthen Belize’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic at ports of entry, the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, previously known as the Development and the Foreign and…
Dr. Luis Felipe Codina, was appointed as the new PAHO/WHO Representative in Guyana effective 2 October 2020. Dr. Codina a national of Peru, obtained both his medical degree (1982) and a diploma for specialization in Pediatrics (1985) from the Escola Paulista de Medicina, Brazil. He has also received a diploma in Health Administration (PROASA) from…
The Pan American Health Organisation was pleased to present Jamaica’s Ministry of Health and Wellness today with a large donation of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to help maintain the health and safety of frontline health workers.
Dr Bernadette Theodore-Gandi, PAHO/WHO representative for Jamaica, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands, handed over…
UPDATE TO PRESS RELEASE ISSUED ON OCTOBER 6, 2020
PAHO/WHO donates extra Oxygen Concentrator Accessories to the Ministry of Health and Wellness for the COVID-19 response
Belize City, Belize, December 23, 2020 UPDATE: The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) donated extra oxygen concentrator accessories to…
In partnership with the Pan-American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), the Government of Canada has provided essential medical equipment to support the Government of Jamaica in its national response to COVID-19.
In a ceremony today, High Commissioner of Canada to Jamaica, Her Excellency Laurie Peters, and PAHO/WHO…
Belize City, Belize, October 5, 2020 (PAHO/WHO) - Through the reorientation of funds from the “Health Sector Support Programme Belize” project, the European Union (EU) and the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) donated 20 fire extinguishers and 19 smoke detectors to the Central Medical Laboratory of the Ministry…
Paramaribo, 4 October 2020 (PAHO/WHO) - PAHO Suriname is supporting nine nurses from Suriname to participate in a month-long introductory course on Critical Care Nursing along with 26 nurses from 5 other countries in the Caribbean – Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Barbados, Dominica and Guyana. The course targets Registered Nurses and will be…