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Contact:
Claudia Monlouis
Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - The business of delivering proper health care
in Saint Lucia is intrinsically linked to how smoothly the Ministry of Health,
Human Services, Family Affairs and Gender Relations is functioning at all times
and on all fronts.
The Ministry has embarked on a rigorous effort to improve its internal
networking, and has adopted the position that it must become one organ, leading
the reform process currently ongoing in the health sector, in order to pave the
way for the establishment of universal health care.
The Ministry has recently turned its focus inward to identify ways and means of
unifying and strengthening its operations. In so doing, the Ministry has seen
the need to dialogue on several matters. Some of the issues, which it has looked
at relates to policy, service delivery, regulation, and monitoring.
“In addition”, Minister Greaves said, “We also wanted to look at the Ministry
being an effective facilitator of optimal health and social services within the
entire sub - region. We thought of areas of improvement, looking at the
development of the HIV plan of Action and primary health care. We also
considered the whole business of the conceptualisation of the Universal health
care plan, and the plan for integrating the new national hospital. All of these
things we wanted to pay some attention to”.
Minister Greaves noted that the Ministry of Health was now concentrating on
doing all in its power to develop a more effective health system for Saint
Lucia.
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