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.