Minister of Health Dr Bheri Ramsaran said more resources will be allocated in the 2012 budget for reproductive and vaccination programmes. He was speaking at a luncheon hosted at Herdmanston Lodge for a group of Grade Six girls to show appreciation for their bravery in being the first recipients of the Gardasil vaccination exercise to inoculate them against cervical cancer.
Girls from the East La Penitence Primary School were the first to benefit from the programme as it was first administered in Georgetown at the East La Penitence Health Centre. Girls ages 11 to 13 in regions three, four, five and six were given the vaccine earlier this