Surveillance will be one of the features that the Ministry of Health will not only sustain, but the system will be rigorously monitored, according to Minister of Health, Dr Bheri Ramsaran.His disclosure was forthcoming in a written statement presented at the most recent sitting of the National Assembly in response to a question from Leader of the Parliamentary Opposition,cheap jerseys, David Granger, in relation to the state of surveillance.The information was provided to the Minister by his Chief Medical Officer, Dr Shamdeo Persaud.In the statement the Minister said that the Health Ministry in accordance with the principals and standards established by the Caribbean Epidemiology Centre (CAREC),Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, in the design of the MOR-BASE Data System, collects and analyses all epidemiological information, using the ICD10 coding system.CAREC, the Minister said, is now incorporated into the recently commissioned Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA). Under this package, he explained that all information on acute gastroenteritis and related diarrheal diseases are routinely collected using the registration of death forms, which captures the information from the health facilities where the events were registered.Added to this, the information is coded for the cause of death and entered into the database which is then validated with that of the General Register’s Office and then submitted to CAREC/CARPHA for review. However, the data set does not include the names of the affected persons, the Minister related.He added though that “based on this information the Ministry can provide a line listing of the coded data on all deaths due to acute gastroenteritis and related conditions,China NFL Jerseys, namely acute diarrheal disease for Region One.”Granger, during a sitting of the House last month,Jerseys NFL Cheap, called for a Commission of Inquiry (COI) into a gastroenteritis outbreak in Region One earlier this year. He premised this move on reports that the outbreak, which claimed the lives of at least three children and sickened close to 500 adults, earlier this year, was linked to poor data collection and by extension, late detection.And so through a Motion, Granger said that the Inquiry would be an avenue to determine the cause of the outbreak, the conditions that existed in the Barima/Waini Region at the time,NFL Jerseys China, and to look at the course and consequences.In an effort to highlight that the Ministry has been efficiently collecting data, the Minister said that the Ministry has validated electronic information available that covered the period 2001 to 2011.Information prior to 2001, he said, was collected using a paper-based system which was destroyed in the 2009 fire that gutted the Ministry building.Examination of the validated data from 2001 to 2012 indicates that a total of 144 deaths were reported over the last 12 years due to Acute Gastroenteritis/Acute Diarrheal diseases. Three quarters of all deaths, that is 65.5 per cent, were males with 61 per cent being five years or younger and 11 per cent over 50, Dr. Ramsaran added.According to the Minister, he has advised the Chief Medical Officer to ensure that surveillance is maintained and the system rigorously monitored. Added to this,Wholesale Nike NFL Jerseys, he has recommended that epidemiology information and analysis already done are reviewed for conformity with standards and principals established by CARPHA. The Minister said too that future collection and processing of epidemiological data and analysis are done in compliance with best international practices.