NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (October 20, 2020) — The Ministry of Well being continues to increase an invite to individuals to attend its Breast Most cancers Consciousness Discussion board dubbed “Within the Pink of Issues.” It is going to be held on the Nevis Performing Arts Centre (NEPAC) on October 21, 2020, from 9 a.m. to noon.
Ms. Shevanée Nisbett, Senior Well being Educator on the Well being Promotion Unit within the Ministry of Well being on Nevis, made the enchantment on October 20, 2020, the final day for individuals to register for the occasion which is able to cater to 200 individuals.
“The final day for registration is at present October 20, however even for those who don’t get to register you possibly can nonetheless come to the discussion board…
“The discussion board promised to be enlightening with a wealth of data… So, it’s going to be motion packed. It’s going to be academic and we are going to all go away feeling a way of heat and with a wealth of data,” she stated.
Ms. Nisbett, who will function the occasion’s chairperson, spoke of a number of the highlights which individuals ought to anticipate.
“Our keynote speaker could be Ms. Camara Lee who’s a breast most cancers survivor. We may even be having testimonials by different breast most cancers survivors in addition to displays by medical doctors similar to Dr. Glenville Liburd, who will do a chat on girls’s well being and prevention for breast most cancers; in addition to Dr. William Stones who’s an OBGYN, and he shall be doing a chat on breast most cancers itself.
“There may even be dance displays. We may even have a track [rendition] by Ms. Venelle Powell,” she stated.
The Ministry of Well being by way of the HPU has designed quite a lot of actions throughout the month of October dubbed “Pinktober” to watch World Breast Consciousness Day on October 24.
Ms. Nisbett additionally spoke of the opposite actions geared in direction of breast most cancers consciousness slated for the rest of the month in line with the theme: “Give Hope: Save lives.”
“To finish off Pinktober on October 23 is our “Fairly Me Pink Day” that’s on the Friday. We’re asking individuals to put on pink as a result of this present day is to commemorate World Breast Most cancers Consciousness Day. As this present day is well known on the twenty fourth annually, and as that day falls on a Saturday, we’re celebrating the day on Friday. So, we’re asking everybody to put on one thing pink and that is in honour of breast most cancers survivors, breast most cancers fighters and those that have misplaced their lives to breast most cancers,” she stated.
October 24, 25 and the 31 shall be dedicated to breast most cancers screening workouts. Ms. Nisbett additionally inspired individuals to make the most of the screening alternatives which shall be accessible in each neighborhood on the island.
“We’ve got our cellular bus screening which shall be executed. We shall be visiting varied villages in the neighborhood and that is to encourage individuals who wouldn’t essentially come to city or to go to the physician, the breast screening could be coming to you and we’re encouraging individuals once you see the bus or once you hear us asserting that the bus ought to be in your space, you prepare and also you come to the bus and also you get your breast screening executed, freed from cost.
“It is vital so that you can get screened even for those who really feel that you’re low threat, for those who really feel like you might be no threat, it is very important get screened since you by no means know. An early detection does save lives,” she stated.
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