The Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA), through its Re­gion­al Tourism and Health Pro­gram (THP), col­lab­o­rat­ed with San­dals Re­sorts In­ter­na­tion­al (SRI), to build ca­pac­i­ty to pro­mote health­i­er, safer tourism to pro­tect the health and well-be­ing of both vis­i­tors and lo­cal pop­u­la­tions in the Caribbean.

The train­ing was con­duct­ed by Ke­ston Daniel, Co­or­di­na­tor, Vis­i­tor-Based Sur­veil­lance and Dr. Sas­tee Kissoon­dan, Tech­ni­cal Of­fi­cer of CARPHA.

A to­tal of 448 per­sons from 18 SRI re­sorts across the Caribbean re­gion par­tic­i­pat­ed in CARPHA’s vir­tu­al “Pre­ven­tion and Con­trol of In­fec­tious Dis­eases for the Hos­pi­tal­i­ty Sec­tor” train­ing on Feb­ru­ary 19.

Dr Lisa In­dar, Ex­ec­u­tive Di­rec­tor, CARPHA re­marked, “This train­ing pro­vid­ed SRI with the es­sen­tial knowl­edge, ca­pac­i­ty and prac­ti­cal ex­am­ples of pre­ven­tion and con­trol mea­sures of in­fec­tious dis­eases in the hos­pi­tal­i­ty sec­tor. With the com­ple­tion of this train­ing, all re­sorts un­der the SRI group would achieve the Health­i­er Safer Tourism (HST) award. This re­mark­able achieve­ment el­e­vates SRI as the on­ly group with all of its re­sorts award­ed the re­gion­al HST award for im­ple­ment­ing proac­tive health mea­sures in tourism.”

Mr. Gavin Palmer, Cor­po­rate Man­ag­er, En­vi­ron­ment, Health & Safe­ty, SRI, shared, “San­dals is very grate­ful to part­ner with CARPHA and this train­ing will al­low San­dals re­sorts to be brand­ed as a Health­i­er, Safer Tourism fa­cil­i­ty through CARPHA which we look for­ward to.”