T&T is in the height of the Car­ni­val sea­son, and health con­cerns may not be at the top of the list of pri­or­i­ties of many peo­ple. But once the sea­son of rev­el­ry is over, some peo­ple may be seek­ing in­for­ma­tion that will guide them in their quest to at­tempt to re­verse the ef­fects of their weeks of in­dis­cre­tion-sleep­less nights, ex­ces­sive al­co­hol con­sump­tion, un­healthy and un­bal­anced di­ets.

A good place to start may be The U-Health and Well­ness Ex­po­si­tion, sched­uled to take place from March 19 to 21 at the Hy­att Re­gency in Port-of-Spain. Host­ed by U–The Caribbean Health Di­gest, the event will once again cre­ate a fo­rum that al­lows or­gan­i­sa­tions and in­di­vid­u­als the unique op­por­tu­ni­ty to pro­mote their health re­lat­ed prod­ucts, ser­vices and so­lu­tions to a cap­tive au­di­ence. This ex­po­si­tion was held for the first time in Sep­tem­ber 2010 and sub­se­quent­ly can­celled in 2011 as a re­sult of un­cer­tain­ties sur­round­ing the then state of emer­gency.

This year promis­es to be much more in­ter­ac­tive, with many more ex­hibitors that in­clude ma­jor play­ers in the in­sur­ance and fi­nance sec­tors, health food providers, pri­vate hos­pi­tals, spas and fit­ness cen­tres, each armed with so­lu­tions to cre­at­ing health­i­er and more in­formed cit­i­zens. On March 19, Min­is­ter of Health Dr Fuad Khan will of­fi­cial­ly open the ex­po, and that day will cater to cor­po­rate T&T. The sub­se­quent days will be open to the pub­lic, in­clud­ing schools, at no cost. Some ex­hi­bi­tion spaces are still avail­able for com­pa­nies that wish to cap­i­talise on the op­por­tu­ni­ty to mar­ket them­selves to a au­di­ence that has a keen in­ter­est on health and well­ness is­sues.

Con­tact: U-The Caribbean Health Di­gest at 868-665-6712 or 4428 or email reg­is­ter@uhealthdi­gest.com