| Parents on Nevis have
been urged to take advantage of every opportunity they
receive to get their children's hearing tested. The
advice came from Minister of Health in the Nevis Island
Administration (NIA) Hon. Hensley Daniel when he delivered
remarks to mark the official opening of a Hearing Aid
Mission at the Alexandra Hospital on Monday. The event
was organised by the Florida based Caribbean Foundation
For Children Inc.
"Take every opportunity
to get your children screened and tested…if you
did this testing in the United States and other capitals
around the world it would be far more expensive. Very
often in Nevis the services are provided at a very
cheap rate or most times at no cost at all and if
the parents don't access the service, then it becomes
much more difficult to provide the curative care years
after," he said.
The Health Minister
also warned parents against uncertainty with regard
to their children's health status and encouraged them
to not be ashamed if something was wrong. He said
early detection of health problems in children was
as important as taking early corrective measures.
"We have to be
fortunate that we have at our disposal the Caribbean
Foundation For Children, the Ministry of Education
and the Ministry of Health and ear specialist Dr.
Brouillette who can help us."
So make good use of
it and I trust that all of our children who are screened
will be certified as having proper hearing or if they
don't, that they can be helped and helped immediately.
The Ministry of Health stands ready to help in that
regard," he said.
A number of students
who had been identified to receive the screening test
came from a cross section of Nevis primary schools.
At the end of Wednesday's session over 100 students
had been examined.
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