According to a press release, OECS representatives attended a stakeholder meeting on the European Union (EU) and Caribbean Forum (Cariforum) initiative to strengthen climate-resilient health systems with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
Discussions also focused on the project’s activities and opportunities for OECS countries, as well as the regional EU agenda on health and climate change.
“We are here to focus specifically on health issues, but I want to say that the issue of the multidimensionality of the climate crisis is increasingly recognized,” said the Caribbean organization’s director general, Didacus Jules, in his speech at the meeting.
The various multilateral and international specialist organizations are beginning to focus their competencies in this regard, which is why we welcome this partnership with both the EU and PAHO with great satisfaction.
According to the text, health systems and populations in this part of the world remain highly vulnerable to climate change, causing extreme conditions, negative impacts on food and water security, impairments in well-being, as well as economic impacts and loss of ability to work.
The EU/Cariforum project aims to contribute to reducing mortality and morbidity resulting from this crisis, the statement says, adding that it includes links to the environmental determinants of health and the prevention and control of Covid-19, and involves several countries in the process supports the area.
Established on June 18, 1981, the OECS is an international organization dedicated to economic harmonization and integration, the protection of human and legal rights, and the promotion of good governance among the independent and non-independent countries of the Eastern Caribbean.
It includes the islands of Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands.
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