BDF May Measurement Month

BDF Media Release| 24 May 19

Photography credit: Corporal Maynard D 

The Barbados Defence Force in its partnership with the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Barbados (HSFB) for May Measurement Month, under the theme “Drilling Down the Numbers, Because I Say So!!”, conducted blood pressure testing at Government House. The Governor-General, Her Excellency Dame Sandra Mason GCMG, DA, QC with approximately thirty members of staff participated in the May Measurement Month initiative. 
May Measurement Month (MMM) is a global awareness campaign led by the International Society of Hypertension (ISH), which represents the world’s leading scientists, clinicians, health care providers and allied health care workers, all with a common interest in hypertension (high blood pressure) research.

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