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Brown’s Hall Community to Get Health Centre

By: , November 2, 2018

The Key Point:

Within the next three months, residents of Brown’s Hall and surrounding communities in St. Catherine will have a $25=million health centre close to their homes.
Brown’s Hall Community to Get Health Centre
Photo: Dave Reid
Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (third right), breaks ground for the $25-million Brown’s Hall Health Centre in St. Catherine on Wednesday (October 31). Others (from left) are Deputy Mayor of Spanish Town and Councillor for the Ginger Ridge Division, Ralston Wilson; Project Manager at the National Health Fund (NHF), Orette Clarke; Sales and Marketing Manager at Omni Industries Limited, Vincent Clarke; Chairman and Managing Director at Kemteck Development and Construction Limited, Sylvester Tulloch; and Senior Public Health Nurse at the South East Regional Helath Authority (SERHA), Marlene Stephenson.

The Facts

  • The facility is being built though collaboration involving Kemteck Development and Construction Limited and Omni Industries Limited, which are providing the funds; the National Health Fund (NHF), which did the design work; and the Ministry of Health.

The Full Story

Within the next three months, residents of Brown’s Hall and surrounding communities in St. Catherine will have a $25 million health centre close to their homes.

The facility is being built though collaboration involving Kemteck Development and Construction Limited and Omni Industries Limited, which are providing the funds; the National Health Fund (NHF), which did the design work; and the Ministry of Health.

Speaking at a ceremony to break ground for the project on Wednesday (October 31), portfolio Minister, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, said development of the health centre represents a “true partnership”.

He said that the heads of the two companies – Sylvester Tulloch of Kemteck and Von White of Omni – who are natives of Brown’s Hall, did not hesitate to partner with the Ministry to establish the facility.

Dr. Tufton said that the health centre will assist the Ministry’s efforts to get citizens to take responsibility for their own health, by getting regular health checks and taking steps to prevent lifestyle-related illnesses.

“We have to get back to basics and use the community-based approach and sell the message of how we should live, how we should treat with ourselves in order to avoid diseases,” he said.

Deputy Mayor of Spanish Town, and Councillor for the Ginger Ridge Division, Ralston Wilson, told the gathering that the building of the health centre is one of the “biggest things” to happen for Brown’s Hall, and lauded the donors for “giving back hugely to this community”.

Kemtek Development and Construction Limited designs and builds residential homes across the island.

Omni Industries Limited is a manufacturer of PVC pipes and fittings, and a range of domestic and industrial plastic products.

Last Updated: August 20, 2020

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