The Ministry of Health & Environment has received high commendations for the management of the Zika virus in Dominica.
The commendations came during a mission team visit of the Pan- American Health Organization ( PAHO) , the World Bank and the Inter- American Development Bank to Dominica from July 5th-8th, 2016 .The team was here to conduct A Rapid Needs and Cost Assessment for Health Systems Response to Zika .
Dr Fernando Lavadenz, Senior Health Specialist with the World Bank Group said “ We are impressed that Dominica was able to respond adequately to the epidemic in the medium term, but in the long term sustainability is needed and Dominica will need some support “ Dr Lavadenz, stated further, , “The Epidemiology Surveillance Health System is very well suited, generally Dominica has a very good Epidemiology system ”
The team held table top exercises with Health Administrators, senior health officials and economists from Ministry of Finance on assessing Dominica’s response to Zika .
The World Bank, Senior Health Specialist outlined the long term key challenges for Dominica. To include:
• Human resource planning
• Economic assessment of the costs and needs for the country in different areas and
• The capacity of the health system to respond to epidemics, mainly in terms of laboratories, intensive care units, neurologists, epidemiologists and entomologists.
These are the areas, he said, that very clear needs should be identified.
As a result of the visit the Ministry of Health & Environment is earmarked to receive technical and financial assistance from the Pan- American Health Organization ( PAHO), the World Bank and the Inter- American Development Bank to manage the Zika virus .
PAHO PAHO HO HO HO! Full of lies and deceit.
We Dominicans are not STUPID! We know what the deal is. We KNOW that Zika is a manufactured plague NOT spread by mosquitoes as HO HO HO and the CDC would have us believe.
ZIKA WAS PATENTED IN 1968 BY THE US GOVERNMENT. IN I947, ZIKA WAS ‘DISCOVERED’ BY A US-FUNDED MEDICAL INSTITUTE. IT WAS CONSTRUCTED FROM THE BLOOK OF MONKEYS IN AFRICA – NO MOSQUITOES THERE!
DOMINICANS, SMELL THE COFFEE AND WAKE THE FLOCK UP!!!!
SOON THERE WILL BE SOMETHING WORSE THAN ZIKA UNLESS THEY KNOW THAT WE ARE ON TO THEM.
JUST GOOGLE: PURCHASE ZIKA ONLINE; ZIKA PATENT; ZIKA FRAUD, ZIKA HOAX . ALL THE ANSWERS ARE THERE WAITING FOR YOU TO CHECK THEM OUT.
Government cannot solve all of life’s problem. We Dominican needs to be more tidy and take more pride in keeping our community clean. We dispose of gabbage everywhere. I fault the Government for not enforcing existing laws as it relates to litter and derelict vehicles all over the place.
What NONSENSE is this. The whole country is ZIKARIZED and these guys are there patting their backs!!?
What a joke!
Excellent commendation.
oh my god, government has done nothing to stop zika, we Dominicans are just to quiet… Portsmouth full of zika victims but you hear nothing.
What crap from PAHO. A Dominican was on the brink of death due to the government’s inability to deal with Zika. Thanks to the excellent care which was received from Martinique, they have survived.
Where does PAHO get its information from?
Pure tripe
PAHO, lies, lies and yet more lies. May you endure the wrath of our Lord Jesus’s Christ.
Man I am losing confidence in those organizations by the minute I mean the Ministry of Health has given up the fight against Zika as they did for the chikunguna they have just allowed the virus to take its course just like they have done with lepto. Just look at all the garbage all around The country especially Roseau and environs with rats running all over the place. It’s just so pathetic for these regional and international n all organization comes up with this BS and to say crap. It reminds of the OAS election observatory team saying to us our elections are free and fair when we know otherwise. Nonsense that now.
I had gotten Zika and it wasn’t as bad as the other one before it.
Health Dept and government do your job. You can,t have a productive population if you have a population that is decimated by a simple mosquito borne disease. Not everybody can afford to be airlifted to Martnique. But then again,, you Minister’s Don,t care because you can afford to go overseas for medical care. You all are a bunch of selfish people.
Encourage the government to do what they MUSt do for Dominicans
What rubbish are PAHO and others talking about the adequate response in the medium term to Zika. The ministry of health and government officials have done absolutely NOTHING to arrest the spread of the disease..Spraying every time
They come to tell the nation, Twenty of them, about more reported cases of the disease, is not enough.
Does PAHO know that a Dominican who got the worst case of Zilka disease , Gillaume Barret syndrome, a life threatening disease, was airlifted, by air ambulance to Martinique for treatment because Dominica, the hospital,the government failed to provide the necessary treatment which the World Health Organisation , WHO,advised all countries countries affected to have. Did the government purchase the treatment , immunoglobulins? NO.! Thank God, that patient is out of hospital after having received SUPER treatment from some great doctors and physiotherapists at. the Intensive care of La Meynad hospital. So PAHO that,s pure rubbish you,re talking.
PAHO is spurting a lot f rubbish
Paho is a waste time.
Are they crazy? Thousands of Dominicans have gone down with the Zika virus to the extent that people refuse to report.
Ask the private doctors how many patients do they see on a weekly basis with symptoms of Zika and the majority refuse to be tested because they have discovered that they can sustain the discomfort for week or two.
Do the specialists know what is happening on the ground, maybe they should take to the streets and carry a survey instead of looking at official records which do not have a clue of the reality on the ground. Dominicans should be applauded for showing Zika that we as a people are robust and strong.
The Government has done VERY little to circumvent the spread of Zika. Instead we should thank the mosquitoes for taking it easy on our poor country. Seems like u cant believe much of anything you read these days.
Mark one for Dominica! Still lot of work to be done cleaning the countryside, however.