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The Heart & Stroke Foundation of Barbados is a
non-profit making organisation with a mission to "keep people heart
healthy and reduce suffering and death from Heart disease and Stroke".
The aims and objectives of the organisation are: |
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Developing a broad scientific and medical programme in
the field of heart disease designed to seek new knowledge, disseminate new
and existing knowledge and apply it for the benefit of persons suffering
from these diseases.
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Engaging in a nation wide programme of public
education and awareness to inform people regarding the importance of heart
disease as a problem and what can be done to prevent or control it.
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Developing a nation wide organisation through which
these purposes may be realised.
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Securing the funds needed to finance the Foundation's
programmes and operations by appropriate methods.
The Foundation came to fruition thanks to the shared
initiatives of The Lions Club Of Barbados South, through its Health and
Social Services Committee, then under the chairmanship of Mr. H. (Dru)
Symmonds, and Professor Trevor Hassell, Cardiologist, who was that time
Head of the Department of Medicine and of the Cardiac Unit at the Queen
Elizabeth Hospital in Barbados and who is presently President of the Inter
American Heart Foundation.
The Chief Medical Officer of Health's report for
several years has ranked disease of the heart and blood vessels as a
leading cause of death in Barbados as indeed it is internationally. It is
against this background that the Foundation brings together physicians and
laymen committed to voluntarily addressing this major health problem.
The Foundation is a non-governmental organisation and
receives no funding from government. Therefore the organisation is very
heavily dependent upon donations and fees to carry out our work and relies
considerably upon the financial support of individual Barbadians.
Our motto is, "Everybody has a heart".
This site is one of our ongoing maintenance contracts
and we are proud to be associated with the Heart & Stroke
Foundation of Barbados.
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