The Ministry of Health, Pan American Health Organisa-tion/World Health Organisa-tion (PAHO/WHO) and the Caribbean Epidemiology Centre (CAREC) last week hosted a three-day workshop with health care workers aimed at improving their skills in investigating and controlling disease outbreaks.
“The training is aimed at improving the skills of professionals in public health and emphasises the basic techniques of infectious diseases outbreak investigations, provides participants with the knowledge necessary to investigate an outbreak and to detect early public health events, strengthen their ability to investigate and control disease outbreaks, and build capacity at regional and national levels thereby creating the decentralisation of teams that can assess and respond, and increase preparedness of the entire country,” a GINA report said.
According to Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Shamdeo Persaud,
