CBH receives new equipment

The Central Board of Health (CBH) is describing as ‘a shot in the arm’ the
presentation of new equipment by the government.
A spokesman for the CBH said the new backhoe will better enable the department
to carry out two of its most critical functions; the digging of graves for burial and
the clearing of community drains of shrubs and other forms of blockage. “The
Central Board of Health is now better equipped to prepare burial sites at the Public
Cemetery and Valley Road Cemetery with a new backhoe purchased by the
Government of Antigua and Barbuda,” according to the Principal Public Health
Inspector, Julienne Mannix.
She further explained that before receiving the new backhoe the department only
had one functioning piece of equipment to dig graves. “The shortage of equipment
meant that if we had two funerals running concurrently at the Public Cemetery and
the Valley Church Cemetery this posed a problem for the department as the
government offers a free service of digging and covering of graves,” she stated.
The equipment was handed over to the Permanent Secretary within the Ministry,
Ena Dalso-Henry on Monday at a brief ceremony held at the Department of
Environment.
Also in attendance, along with Mannix, was the Acting Chief Health Inspector,
David Matthery.