This year the Environmental Health Department will celebrate Environmental Health Month from June 1st to 30th 2015 under the theme “Protecting Our Environment for Future Generations”.
The Department envisages maintaining a healthy environment as central to increasing the quality of life, and years of healthy life in Dominica.
The focus will be on issues of Food Safety with special emphasis on Fish Sanitation, Vector Control and Occupational Health and Safety. The activities will commence with a Radio Address by the Honorable Minister of Health and Environment.
This initiative is being undertaken to increase awareness of the public on health issues; to develop workplace accident/ injury and disease surveillance system; to promote community participation in vector control programs and forge greater collaboration among stake holders and the community in general.
The goal of the Department is to promote health for all through a healthy environment. Humans interact with the environment constantly and these interactions affect the quality of life, years of healthy life lived and health disparities.
The World Health Organization defines the environment as it relates to health as “all the physical, chemical and biological factors external to a person and all the related behaviors”.
Environmental Health involves preventing or controlling disease, injury, and disability related to the interactions between people and their environment.
Here in europe the back of the chicken is sold as dog meat ,alot of fat is not good for the health ,why is the gov’t accepting back and neck to into dominica if they really care for the people,,pig snout is the same ,it is dried to serve as dog meat ,yet many people can only afford these low grade meat because the island is not promoting agriculture..the people that are selling by the road sides every day ,are their homes checked by the ministry of health before? what about their health issues ,is it well care fore before selling food,,remember if there is any diarrhea or gastroenteritis outbreak it will not only be those that eat from the street vendors that will be affected…these people are selling food all day long without any running water source ,how do they keep their hands clean after touching money and other objects ?this should be a major concern for the gov’t..before it is too late..
Fisher men fan flies over the fish and people buy it, the food coming from Miami is out dated, the Cubans export rotten chicken to us, so what health safety are we talking about. To guarantee we eat good health food we should grow most of it our selves , only then we will protect the environment . What are they paying these people to tell us nothing. They should be teaching how to ship water down islands to get us out of poverty, and that would stop us from becoming p roffessional beggers.