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Heartline Magazine April - June 2005
Volunteers give yeoman service to the CDP&R
Terese Gloumeau was a member of the steering committee for
the establishment of the Heart Foundation of Barbados (HFOB) in 1985, and was
one of the first directors and its first company secretary. She served as
vice-president before resigning from the Board in 2001 after 16 years of yeoman
service.
Terese received training in cardiac technology in the UK
before returning to Barbados to manage and direct the development of technical
cardiology at the QEH, where she worked for 25 years.
In 1996 she established her own company, Cardiac Technical
Services Inc., which from its inception has provided, free of cost, entry and
exit treadmill exercise tests for the HFOB’s Cardiac Disease Prevention and
Rehabilitation programme.
Considered the CDP&R’s unofficial “Technical Consultant”,
Terese is always “just a phone call away” and is always willing to serve.
Beverley Stanford has been a member of the Heart Foundation
of Barbados and a volunteer from the inception of the organization in 1985. When
the HFOB launched its Healthy Heart Programme in 1991 she was an integral part
of it, providing advice on diet
and nutrition. Again, when the CDP & R programme was started
in 1994 she readily agreed to provide volunteer counseling services to the
clients, in groups or individually.
A nutritionist at the National Nutritional Centre of the
Ministry of Health, Beverley is happy to be part of the mission of the HFOB to
keep people heart healthy and reduce suffering from cardiovascular disease.
From the time the HFOB started it found a willing partner in
Spectrol Medical Laboratories Ltd. Headed by general manager, D’arcy Evans, the
company provided volunteer services in blood sugar and cholesterol testing,
during the HFOB’s outreach programmes, which included visits across the
parishes, health checks in offices and other public venues, and the annual
lifestyles extravaganza in the Park. Spectrol also provides cholesterol and high
density lipoprotein (HDL) free of cost to clients of the CDP&R programme, on
referral.
D’arcy Evans is a medical technologist,trained in Jamaica
and the UK, also at the QEH, where he worked for 7 years before setting up
Spectrol.
“I find the relationship between Spectrol and the HFOB to be
a meaningful partnership” he said.
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