NEPMU-7 supplied data and assets to 4 ships home-ported at Rota. Greater than 50 Sailors got here to the occasion and spoke with our specialists about subjects comparable to: sexual well being, psychological well being, girls’s well being, vitamin, alcohol consciousness, and tobacco cessation.
“This occasion supplied the Sailors of the Destroyer Squadron 60 (DESRON-60) Fleet the tutorial assets and instruments to help them in making knowledgeable well being selections and promoted optimistic life-style behaviors,” stated Senior Chief Hospital Corpsman Chelsea Turner, NEPMU-7 Senior Enlisted Chief (SEL). “It was an excellent alternative to conduct a public consciousness marketing campaign with all of the ships current. This supplied the crews with base-wide assets supporting optimistic change whereas selling mission readiness as they put together to deploy.”
“These well being gala’s are a good way NEPMU7 can move data to assist preserve a Sailor’s well being and wellbeing, elementary to our purpose to assist army readiness,” stated Cmdr. Chad Yasuda, NEPMU-7 Officer in Cost (OIC). “It is a informal and enjoyable setting to encourage good behaviors and reply questions to deal with any misunderstandings and myths about wholesome behaviors. A wholesome life-style and protected atmosphere are a day by day alternative, so we’re all the time on the lookout for methods to succeed in out to Sailors and reinforce that message.”
NEPMU-7 posted at its distinctive location serves three COCOMS and gives well being promotion and wellness assist to all fleet vessels in its space of obligations.
“NEPMU-7 has a accountability to deployed troops in Europe, Africa and Central areas,” stated Yasuda. “Our job depends on the general public well being and preventive medication consultants, our officers and corpsmen who assist the Fleet and Marine Corps. The job of a deployed medical division is stuffed with so many various duties; NEPMU7 is standing by as material consultants in order that the deployed troops may be assured of their selections it doesn’t matter what the well being hazard or menace is. We offer assist for mission completion and likewise work to make sure exposures to hazards whereas deployed are recorded so Sailors are coated, even after they’ve transition to retired veterans.”
As one in all NEPMU-7’s clients, Senior Chief Petty Officer Marisol Fernandez, SEL with DESRON-60 shares his ideas in regards to the companies HPW gives.
“HPW companies which NEPMU-7 gives to the Fleet is an enormous win for the Unbiased Obligation Corpsmen (who oversee Sailor’s well being and wellbeing on ships) and ships’ well being promotion program and Inexperienced “H” award,” stated Fernandez.
“Listening to the story of the Fleet and NEPMU-7 working collectively to advertise Sailor’s well being and wellness, Pressure Medical Grasp Chief of Naval Floor Pressure, Atlantic stated “Little question we’ve got an excellent partnership with NEPMU-7,” stated Pressure Medical Grasp Chief Frank Maccarelli, Naval Floor Pressure Atlantic.
