Public Health Messages

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:01 pm on 11 May 2022.

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Photo of John Griffiths John Griffiths Labour 2:01, 11 May 2022

Thank you for that, Minister. During the pandemic, I think it became ever more clear that there are very considerable health inequalities within our ethnic minority communities. There were issues with getting messaging across with vaccination rates and a host of economic and social conditions. And thankfully, Minister, Muslim Doctors Cymru stepped forward—and a constituent of mine, Dr Kasim Ramzan, was part of that—to help get messages across in community languages, to raise awareness, to hold vaccination clinics in mosques, to hold Zoom meetings, to link relevant professionals together. They did a tremendous amount of work, Minister, as I know you're aware. Now that we're hopefully coming through the pandemic, I'd like your reassurance, really, that Welsh Government will continue to work with Muslim Doctors Cymru to address the ongoing health inequalities in our black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, because there's still a lot of work to do.