Health Care

Our country’s economic growth depends on a healthy productive population and a society enjoys more satisfaction and life happiness when the members of its family units are healthy and able. Great health is therefore fundamental to our individual and national experience.

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In representing the interests of St. James South, I have engaged too many of our seniors who are challenged to live on pensions against the backdrop of rising health costs (now including VAT on over-the- counter medications) and declining health services. NCDs now ravage the lives of younger and younger people and scourge of cancer is present.

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In representing the interests of the constituents of St. James South, I have engaged too many of our seniors who are challenged to live on their fixed pensions against the backdrop of rising health costs (now including VAT on over-the- counter medications) and declining health services. NCDs now ravage the lives of younger and younger people and scourge of cancer is present.

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I will work to promote and support community level wellness programmes to augment the efforts made by the road warriors daily who exercise and seek to stay in shape.   I will agitate in a BLP government for the allocation of resources to enable individuals, community groups, churches, schools and NGOs in disseminating healthy life-style information.  I will engage those involved in agriculture with a view to enhance the production and marketing of locally grown food, in support of healthy eating and at the same time enhancing our food security. 

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Importantly, I will, as a member of a BLP government, seek to ensure that our health care system is a first world system, delivering the quality care and service you expect from a caring government and a well managed economy.