Ground will be broken this year for major expansion works at the Spanish Town Hospital (STH) in St. Catherine. “We are well advanced; the designs have been completed. We are now going to market for the procurement process to select a contractor, and we hope to break ground this year in the 60th year of our Independence,” said Minister of...

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Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr. Jacquiline Bisasor McKenzie, says the country’s confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) cases, hospitalisations and deaths continue to trend downward. In the last 24 hours, up to Thursday (March 24), Jamaica recorded 13 new cases of the virus and two additional deaths. The country’s daily positivity rate now stands at two per cent while the seven-day average positivity...

Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, says the visit of Their Royal Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, to the Spanish Town Hospital on March 23 was a source of inspiration and positivity for the staff and patients of the facility. In an interview with JIS News after the event, Minister Tufton said that the...

Their Royal Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (pictured at second left and left, respectively), and Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (third left), observe as Public Health Nurse, Teldra Burrell-Lewis, administers the coronavirus (COVID-19) booster shot to Surgical Resident at the Spanish Town Hospital, Jody-Ann Woolery (seated). Also pictured (at fourth left) is Head...

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