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10/29/2014 
LIAT PARTNERS WITH OECS MEMBER STATES IN CAMPAIGN AGAIN...  
Regional air carrier LIAT has boosted the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Commission’s campaign to reduce the threat and minimize the impact of Ebola on member states and the wider region. The Caribbean airline offered complimentary seats to core members of each national leadership team from each OECS member state to a central location for air transfer to Havana, Cuba, for a special technical preparatory meeting from October 29 to 30, 2014. While in Havana, the team of top medical personnel will revise the national plans with a view to transforming them into regional containment plans. The OECS Commission’s director general, Dr Didacus Jules, said the containment plan will provide the complete specifications of the material requirements to support and safeguard the efforts in each national space in dealing with issues associated with Ebola. The special technical preparatory meeting in Havana will include a training of trainers element. The meeting will also review the national protocols towards ensuring convergence of processes and synergies among the national protocols to ensure cohesion in the region’s response to Ebola. The OECS anti-Ebola campaign is based on four critical points of action: prevention, protecting the health of workers, managing Ebola cases and managing public perceptions of Ebola. David Evans, LIAT chief executive officer, said that the airline is proud to be able to contribute in some way to the vitally important work being carried out by the OECS Commission. The national OECS leadership teams journeying to Havana for the special technical preparatory meeting comprise four people from Antigua and Barbuda, three from Grenada, three from Saint Lucia, two from Anguilla, one from the British Virgin Islands, and two from the OECS Commission. Martinique, whose accession to associate membership of the OECS is in progress, is sending one representative, while one individual from Montserrat as well as three representatives each from St Kitts and Nevis and Dominica are on standby. The St Vincent and the Grenadines team, while part of the mission, will not be a part of this special complimentary LIAT trip as they have expedited travel plans to Cuba ahead of the finalised arrangement with the Caribbean airline. Recently, the OECS Commission addressed a joint sitting of Saint Lucia’s parliament, which reiterated the need for householders, business houses and other places of social activity to apply basic hygiene practices such as the washing of hands, in building early defence against disease. Source: carib news
 

 


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