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ST. KITTS'
HEALTH STRUCTURE PROVIDES BLUE PRINT FOR ANGUILLA
Date Posted: June 11, 2008.
Basseterre, St. Kitts, A delegation from
Anguilla visited St. Kitts to tour the health facilities and
explore ways to deepen cooperation.
The three-man touring group was headed by Minister of Social
Development Honourable Evans McNeil Rogers, who spent Friday
morning June 06, in meetings with the Minister
of Health Honourable Rupert Herbert, his Permanent Secretary
Elvis Newton and a host of other medical officials and
administrators.
Minister Rogers told SKNIS that St. Kitts and Nevis and
Anguilla share deep bonds and this partnership is good
business.
“We are very small countries and there is no need to
duplicate services that are available in one country,” he
said. “We need to share some services so that we will be
able to use the limited resources that we have in a very
constructive and positive way in order to provide the health
services that are required and that are demanded by our
people in the region.”
The visiting official noted that very often, persons think
of collaborations in the fields of tourism or finance, but
he explained that it was time that other areas of
cooperation be explored in order to ensure the
sustainability of the region.
Minister Rogers noted that nurses from Anguilla are
currently training in St. Kitts and there are plans to have
that number expanded. He also revealed that biomedical
engineers from St. Kitts have played a vital role in the
operation of his country's own service in that field.
Before coming to St. Kitts, the team visited Antigua. This
visit was strategically planned as a new 180-room health
facility is being constructed there. The minister stressed
his belief that the escalating cost of health care will see
more partnerships being forged throughout the region.
While in St. Kitts, the touring party which includes Darlene
Baptiste, Executive Officer in the Ministry of Health and
Dr. Franklin Lloyd, Director of the Board of Health, visited
the Joseph N. France General Hospital as well as the Newtown
Health Center. The one-day visit ends Satruday morning.
An official form the local Ministry of Health said it was
wonderful to host the team from Anguilla and added that the
Government was excited about the expanded avenues of
cooperation between both countries.
