Lifestyle diseases fight must be more data driven

Dr Ernest Pate

PAHO Caribbean Programme Coordinator, Dr Ernest Pate, says that CARICOM must be more data driven in the prevention and treatment of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

He is also calling on CARICOM Heads of Government to “move” their commitment from principle to practice, noting that adequate resources were an imperative to fighting NCDs, said a press release from the CARICOM Secretariat at Turkeyen.

Dr Pate was delivering the feature address at