The Ministry of Health is today holding an open-air Wellness Fiesta in Gouyave to commemorate this year’s Caribbean Wellness Day observance.
The activity scheduled for Cuthbert Peters Park is the highlight of this year’s celebrations which focuses on youth ages 15–29. Caribbean Wellness Day 2013 is being held under the theme;‘Safeguarding the health of our youth for a brighter future’.
Today’s activity features endorsements from the Prime Minister — Dr. the Rt. Hon. Keith Mitchell, Government Ministers and private sector officials in a united effort to stop the Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases Epidemic in Grenada.
The Health Ministry and its partners are offering an array of health services including health screenings, counselling, healthy foods packs, exercise and wellness demonstrations and a cultural presentation as part of the Wellness Fiesta package.
The public is urged to be a part of the Wellness Fiesta which was scheduled to begin at 1:00 pm.
Caribbean Wellness Day, known as the Port-of-Spain Declaration emerged from the 15 September 2007 — Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (Caricom), meeting at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Trinidad and Tobago. That special Regional Summit was aimed at addressing Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs).
(Caricom) believes that “Uniting to Stop the Epidemic of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases in the Caribbean,” is the best way of addressing CNCD’s and its related burdens.
