{"id":51059,"date":"2014-03-04T09:46:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T14:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=51059"},"modified":"2014-03-10T08:58:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T12:58:53","slug":"heart-association-fair-benefitted-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/03\/heart-association-fair-benefitted-the-public","title":{"rendered":"Heart Association Fair Benefitted The Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51060\" alt=\"bahamas-heart-association-0368\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/bahamas-heart-association-0368.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"325\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday February 27th, The Bahamas Heart Association hosted their Annual Health Fair at Town Centre \u00a0Mall. This event is hosted to educate the public and create an awareness about general health and heart health.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-51062\" alt=\"bahamas-heart-association-0391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/bahamas-heart-association-0391.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>It is also an opportunity for people to get tested privately for things such as cholesterol, glucose level, AIDS etc. It\u2019s also an opportunity to meet drug distributors, obtain information about heart related disease ,and \u00a0learn about alternative care and treatment eg. Symmetry.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsors for this event were: Aquapure, Town Center Mall, Fashion Hall, Doctor&#8217;s Hospital, Thompson&#8217;s Trading, D&#8217;Albenas Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Booths present at this event were: The Bahamas Heart Association, The National \u00a0Drug Council, Lowes Pharmacy, \u00a0Cancer Association, The Nurses Association of The Bahamas, \u00a0Symmetry, The Diabetes Assoc., Healthy Life Style, Thompson&#8217;s Trading, UNIFY, Owen Burrows, HIV Aids Programme, Doctor&#8217;s Hospital and the D&#8217;Albenas.<\/p>\n<p>According to Thelma Johnson, The Bahamas Heart Association\u2019s President, \u201cWe were happy to host this event. We encourage the public to become educated about their health, especially heart health. The Bahamas Heart Association is here to create an awareness and educate people about heart disease. We can provide presentations \/ lectures to schools, workplaces etc. We welcome the public to become a part of The Bahamas Heart Association. \u00a0Your support helps not only you, but also a child in need of heart care. We thank everyone who have supported and joined us\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Bahamas Heart Association<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-51059 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/03\/heart-association-fair-benefitted-the-public\/bahamas-heart-association-0357'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/bahamas-heart-association-0357.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/03\/heart-association-fair-benefitted-the-public\/bahamas-heart-association-0363'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/bahamas-heart-association-0363.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/03\/heart-association-fair-benefitted-the-public\/bahamas-heart-association-0371'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/bahamas-heart-association-0371.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/03\/heart-association-fair-benefitted-the-public\/bahamas-heart-association-0372'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/bahamas-heart-association-0372.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/03\/heart-association-fair-benefitted-the-public\/bahamas-heart-association-0382'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/bahamas-heart-association-0382.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/03\/heart-association-fair-benefitted-the-public\/bahamas-heart-association-0395'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/bahamas-heart-association-0395.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Captions:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Top &#8211; Bahamas Heart Association booth &#8211; Deidre Maycock, Tina Lightbourne (Vice-president), Thelma Johnson (president)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Side: booth at fair<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Gallery (left to right)<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>0357 &#8211; Nurses association<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>0363 &#8211; Tessa Simone DJ&#8217;s<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>0371 &#8211; Symmetry Bahamas<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>0372 &#8211; Health sponsor of fruit drinks<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>0382 &#8211; Bahamas Diabetic Association<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>0395- Rotoracts with Miss Teen Bahamas<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamas Heart Association hosted their Annual Health Fair at Town Centre  Mall last Thursday, with the goal of educating the public and creating awareness about general health and heart health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":51060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-51059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}