{"id":74922,"date":"2021-05-28T14:45:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T18:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=74922"},"modified":"2021-05-28T14:45:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T18:45:15","slug":"dr-joycelyn-elders-on-caribbean-facebook-forum-on-health-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/blog\/2021\/05\/28\/dr-joycelyn-elders-on-caribbean-facebook-forum-on-health-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Joycelyn Elders, on Caribbean Facebook Forum on Health Security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dr. Joycelyn Elders, Committee for the Coincidence of Opposites, on Caribbean Facebook Forum on Health Security<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 27, 2021 (EIRNS) \u2013 A forum was held today in Trinidad Tobago, streamed on Facebook Live Video with the online participation of Dr. Joycelyn Elders, former U.S. Surgeon General, who co-founded the Committee for the Coincidence of Opposites in 2020 with Helga Zepp LaRouche, Schiller Institute President. The topic was, \u00abBuilding Global and National Health Infrastructure in the Wake of Covid.\u00bb Host Dr. Kirk Meighoo opened the hour-long dialogue, which is the second of a weekly series for a new season of his The Story Club<\/em> series,\u00a0with quotes from the May 14 Committee release<\/a><\/strong>, \u00abGlobal Health Security Requires Medical Infrastructure in Every Country\u2014Major Industrial Nations Must Collaborate Now!\u00bb The forum also airs in India. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joining Dr. Elders were Dr. Tim Gopeesingh, from Trinidad Tobago, and Marcia Merry Baker, from EIR<\/em> News Service. Dr. Gopeesingh\u2019s long background of both medical specialty\u2014gynecological oncology\u2014and long, high-level public service, parallels Dr. Elders, who is a pediatrician, and the two compared views on many concrete aspects of health care, from teaching, to community health, to hospitals. Gopeesingh was a Cabinet Minister, Member of Parliament, Senator, and Health Administrator. He personally oversaw a dramatic expansion of the medical care delivery capacity in Trinidad Tobago. He was on the faculty of the University of the West Indies\u2014which has multiple locations in several nations, and served as Clinical Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences there from 1994-1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two physicians stressed the necessity for building capacity to deliver care. Elders said that the pandemic has revealed the \u00absoft underbelly\u00bb of the inadequacies of medical and public health systems. On the U.S. situation, she said that for years the U.S. has not had \u00abhealth care.\u00bb Instead, it has \u00absick care.\u00bb Both doctors spoke of providing health care in the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gopeesingh described some of the capacity he had helped to build up, including new hospital resources. Then, he said, another administration came in and let the system languish. One hospital was completely shut down; now with COVID-19, it has been reopened. Elders concurred strongly, that \u00ableadership\u00bb is the biggest need in public health and medicine. She presented \u00abFive Cs\u00bb for leadership. Among them, Concern, Competence, and Commitment. Elders recounted when and why the Committee for the Coincidence of Opposites was founded in 2020, as the \u00abbrainchild\u00bb of Helga Zepp-LaRouche, to show that people can work together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baker identified the green evil we now see from the Wall Street-City of London crowd. UN Climate Action Envoy, and former Bank of England governor Mark Carney tells Africa that they should not develop their resources or build infrastructure. They should sell carbon offset credits for retaining a primitive economy, and just die off, while the bankers try to create a green bubble for themselves off the new carbon credits market. This must be stopped. Baker reported the opposition to this, in the form of the critical initiatives for a new world health security system, for example, the Mexico-Argentina vaccine production partnership, the provision of vaccine to the Honduras mayors by El Salvador after they appealed for help, the achievements of Cuba in their work on new vaccines and bio-medical research. She called for the major powers to get together and collaborate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Gopeesingh warned against any shallow thinking that once this terrible pandemic is over it will be smooth sailing. Not at all. The coronavirus has appeared before in deadly form (SARS, MERS) and may do so after the SARSCov2 period. The cold virus requires vaccination every two years. We have to get realistic. Link to the full program is at this Facebook link: https:\/\/fb.watch\/5LyRSLABHY\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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