Celebrating Our Health Care Workers on World Health Day

Dear Friends

Team Athletics St Vincent and the Grenadines (TASVG) is today, 7 April 2020, paying homage to the healthcare workers/providers of our blessed country, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and the entire global community, as we all observe World Health Day.

We are aware that 2020 has been declared the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife, but we are very conscious that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought into focus the tremendous sacrifices being made everywhere, but doctors, nurses, midwives and all categories of healthcare providers. Daily, they all put their own lives at risk in pursuit of saving the lives of others.

All of TASVG, athletes, coaches, technical officials, administrators and volunteers, today, say a most sincere, thank you, to our medical fraternity – doctors, nurses, midwives, et al. We applaud for the work you have done and continue to do for all of St Vincent and the Grenadines, including our stakeholders. Some of our athletes have done videos expressing their gratitude to you and your counterparts across the world as part of our support for and appreciation of your work.

We are proud of our health care providers who are at this time pressured beyond measure in the face of a silent enemy – COVID-19, the full dynamics of which we are all yet to understand. We know that the challenges are beyond measure but that you will abide by your solemn commitment. We remember you and your families in our prayers and wish God’s choicest blessings be with you each and every day of your lives.

Today, World Health Day 2020, TASVG calls on all Vincentians to join with us in celebrating our healthcare providers. We once more urge all our stakeholders to heed the advice of our medical fraternity and adhere to the established protocols aimed at enhancing our capacity to defeat COVID-19.

Keith Joseph

President

TASVG

7 April 2020