[MEDIA ALERT] Launch of the INTERREG CARES Project

Press invitation

The OECS in partnership with Regional Health Agencies, Hospitals, University Centers and key health stakeholders of the French territories of the Eastern Caribbean launch CARES (Cooperation, Accessibility, Referrals, E-information System). The project, funded by INTERREG and the European Development Fund, totals over 4 million euros. 

WHAT

The objective of INTERREG CARES is to ensure capacity building in an effort to support the development of regional approaches to health services. INTERREG CARES seeks to coordinate the access of the citizens of the OECS Member States to health services in the French Departments in the Eastern Caribbean in multiple areas including, cancer treatment, cardiology, ophthalmology and a number of other specialised medical services.

WHO

Participants will include:

  • Experts in the areas of Health, Education, Pharmaceutical Procurement Services, and Development Cooperation & Resource Mobilisation of the OECS;
  • Head and delegation of the Regional Health Agency of Guadeloupe (ARS);
  • Head and delegation of the General Social Security Fund of Martinique and Guadeloupe (CGSS);
  • Head and delegation of the University Hospital Centre of Martinique (CHUM);
  • Delegation of the University Hospital Centre of Guadeloupe;
  • Commissioner of Martinique to the OECS ;
  • Representatives of the Regional Council of Guadeloupe;
  • Ambassador of France to the OECS and Barbados; and
  • Representatives of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA).

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

The media is invited to attend.

WHEN

The press briefing will be held on October 31, 2018 at 5:45 PM

WHERE

Coco Palm Resort, Saint Lucia

CONTACTS

Dr. Carlene Radix

carlene.radix@oecs.int

(758) 485 1491

OR

Eliza James

Eliza.james@oecs.int

(758) 458 1260

 

   This story aligns with OECS Strategic Objective No.1: Regional Integration.

OECS Communications Unit

Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States

Carlene Radix

Head of the Health Unit, OECS

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The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) is an International Organisation dedicated to economic harmonisation and integration, protection of human and legal rights, and the encouragement of good governance among independent and non-independent countries in the Eastern Caribbean. The OECS came into being on June 18th 1981, when seven Eastern Caribbean countries signed a treaty agreeing to cooperate with each other while promoting unity and solidarity among its Members. The Treaty became known as the Treaty of Basseterre, so named in honour of the capital city of St. Kitts and Nevis where it was signed. The OECS today, currently has eleven members, spread across the Eastern Caribbean comprising Antigua and Barbuda, Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Martinique and Guadeloupe. 

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