Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy said Guyana has played a significant role in informing the world that non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is the danger to public health at the 66th session at the United Nations General Assembly held on Monday.
According to a Government Information Agency (GINA) press release Guyana’s involvement in the preparation of the declaration shows that small countries can make a difference. Ramsammy said the world now acknowledges that NCDs comprise a new front in the fight to promote global public health and in the fight against poverty. Guyana recognised early that the efficiency of efforts pursued at the national level needed to be complemented by regional and global consideration. It has played an active role in advancing the NCDs agenda at the regional and global levels; evident in its call since 2002, for an MDG + that includes global-led agreements for the fight against the NCDs.
Guyana also collaborated with other Caricom member states to ensure a regionally coordinated response to the NCDs. “It was not accidental that CARICOM was instrumental in
