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PAHO Director, Dr. Mirta Roses, Visits The Bahamas |
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PAHO/WHO Representative for Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands |
| | Dr. Merle Lewis, a national of Trinidad and Tobago, obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology and Chemistry from the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago in 1976 and a Master’s in Public Health with honors from Yale University, Connecticut, USA in 1980. In 1983, she was awarded a Pan American Health Organization Fellowship to the Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, USA, from where, in 1988, she obtained a doctoral degree in Public Health with an emphasis in Immunology and Infectious Diseases. | | |  Hon. Brent Symonette, MP, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Dr. Lewis |
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PAHO Helps Turks and Caicos Islands Recover |
 After being severely ravaged by Tropical Storm Hanna and Hurricane Ike in September 2008, the Pan American Health Organization [PAHO] collaborated with the national health authorities of the Turks and Caicos Islands [TCI] to support their post-disaster recovery efforts. There was much dislocation of the population, including the national health staff, on some of the islands such as Grand Turk and South Caicos, due to extensive damage of homes and buildings, including the Grand Turk Hospital. |
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