| – calls situation “professional negligence”“I think that we need to send some of our specialists to give guidance and consultancy to the Americans,” was the candid assertion of Minister of Health, Dr Bheri Ramsaran,NFL Jerseys Cheap Authentic, as he commented on reports of a measles outbreak in the United States.Health MinisterDr Bheri RamsaranIn fact the Minister has dubbed the outbreak as “professional negligence” even as he pointed out that “it is unacceptable that the babies and even the adults in Florida are exposed to measles.”According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) measles is a highly contagious respiratory disease caused by a virus. It spreads through the air via coughing and sneezing and starts with a fever, runny nose, cough, red eyes, and sore throat, and is followed by a rash that spreads all over the body.About three out of 10 people who get measles will develop one or more complications including pneumonia,NFL Jerseys Wholesale, ear infections, or diarrhoea, the CDC has revealed. However, measles can be prevented with the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine.According to Minister Ramsaran, while the local health sector is sorry about the situation in the US, the state of affairs in fact suggests the importance of public health interventions.“You have to buy the public in with posters and flyers; that is why we have health fairs at the Square of the Revolution,Cheap Jerseys Online, so that our Guyanese population would be informed,” said the Minister as he dared to say that “probably the layman in Guyana is more educated than these people running around in Miami…I’m being serious, because if they had appreciated it, they would have understood why they had to get the vaccine.”The Minister is confident that Guyana has been able to achieve things in its health sector, such as its immunisation coverage, that many strong economies of the world have not been able to attain.“I want to blow our trumpet…Guyana is on top of measles, Guyana is on top of 16 other vaccine-preventable diseases. Guyana has 98 (per cent) coverage…There is no measles in Guyana for the past umpteen years and we can even say ‘donkey’ years,” the Health Minister boasted.He also bragged of Guyana “being on top of our vaccine-preventable childhood diseases. We started several years ago with coverage of probably just two vaccines and then we kept going and going, until now,Wholesale Nike NFL Jerseys, where we have 16, including HPV.”One of the most recent vaccines introduced by the Health Ministry is that of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV),Cheap NFL Jerseys China, which was introduced in 2012, and has been yielding some good responses, said the Health Minister. The HPV vaccine, according to him, is administered to girls between nine and 11 years of age.“We have been having good responses…so our vaccine programme is great, we have reached all ‘nooks and crannies’, whether it is on the mountain tops, if it is the valleys, if it is upriver, all regions are well covered,” Minister Ramsaran stated.He continued by stressing that Guyana has been the recipient of several regional and international accolades for its achievements, even as he pointed out that his Ministry’s Maternal and Child Health immunization programme is now used as an international model.“This of course is due to the intervention and the expanding resources we have pumped into the health sector,” said the Minister. He recalled that two years ago the health sector enjoyed $17.5 billion from the national budget while that amount was increased last year, reflected by a $21.5 billion allocation.“We have come a far way and the only way that we could be achieving 98 per cent coverage is due to the hard work of our nurses, especially in the health centres; our health care providers who walk or who go on horseback, bicycle or canoe, to find every single child and vaccinate them… taking their vaccines in coolers,” the Health Minister said.Simultaneously, he noted that Government has been able to leverage international support, together with its own funding, to put in strategic locations, countrywide,Wholesale Jerseys, vaccination refrigerators, many of which are powered by solar energy.“We have been able to do that replacement over the past 10 years…before, it used to be kerosene or gas fridges which always had a problem of fuel running out,” the Minister disclosed as he reiterated his stance that Guyana is not worried about measles.“Guyana does not have measles; I do not recall when we had the last reported case. We don’t have measles,cheap nfl jerseys china, we don’t have mumps, we don’t have so many of the distressful preventable childhood diseases that probably our mothers and fathers suffered from.” |
