“Some capital cities smell like a sewer and look like a garbage heap when you go to them,” said Executive Director of the Caribbean Environmental Health Institute (CEHI), Ms Patricia Aquing, when she addressed the opening session of a biomedical waste management training workshop yesterday at the Grand Coastal Inn, Le Ressouvenir,NFL Jerseys China Cheap, East Coast Demerara.She amplified the fact that many countries have over the years been engaged in waste management, but face the same emerging problems year after year.Aimed at deriving a regional policy, the Japan Cooperative Institute- funded workshop, which was spearheaded by CEHI, in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) and the Japanese Government, will be characteristic of intense discussions among participants.The initiative, which is fully supported by the Ministry of Health, saw the attendance of Health Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy,Wholesale China Jerseys, who noted that the training workshop is in fact a step in the right direction and even dubbed it “a dream come through.” However, he cautioned that the work is not over, and there is yet more to be done when it comes to waste management.“While it is true that we have put it on the public health agenda,Marlon Humphrey Jersey, it largely remains on the agenda of something that we have talked about, but our actions have not always been consistent with our rhetoric…The efforts here today, and the leading role that CEHI has played in the Caribbean,NBA Store, have to match our deeds to our rhetoric.”And it is the Minister’s belief that there has been some progress in reducing the gap between deeds and rhetoric, firmly placing the issue of waste management on the agenda although investments may not yet be consistent with the place where biomedical management should be. As such he noted much more must be done collectively.In addition to local health officials, the workshop also saw the attendance of officials from the Solid Waste Management Department of the Georgetown municipality. Aside from Guyana, representatives from 13 territories were in attendance including: Belize, British Virgin Islands, Barbados, St Vincent, Grenada, St Kitts and Nevis, St Vincent and the Grenadines,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, St Lucia,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, Dominica, Montserrat, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Antigua and Barbuda.The workshop, which will culminate tomorrow, had its genesis some 10 years ago during a conversation with Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy had with CEHI officials shortly after he assumed the ministerial capacity. According to Aquing, Minister Ramsammy had at that time urged that CEHI do some works in biomedical waste management in the Region.Moreover, CEHI started focusing attention in terms of assisting countries by offering training in biomedical waste management through continuous workshops.However, the need for a policy and a planning process is crucial, since Aquing emphasized, without this much cannot be accomplished, or if accomplished, will be done in a most ad hoc manner. And this could only lend to the lost of precious resources, she added. As such, the participants at the work