Work is scheduled to begin in June on the 250-bed Western Children and Adolescent Hospital in St. James. Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, said the Chinese Embassy in Kingston has given the assurance that work will get under way following delays due to coronavirus (COVID-19). The governments of Jamaica and China are funding the hospital...

Work is set to commence on major expansion works at the Spanish Town Hospital early next year. “I am pleased to advise that the tender for the Spanish Town Hospital will be in the public domain in May 2022. Based on Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) procurement procedures, it is anticipated that we should have engaged a contractor by the end...

Work has been completed under Phases 1 and 2A of the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) Rehabilitation programme, at a cost of $1.3 billion. Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, made the disclosure during his contribution to the 2022/23 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on May 3. He informed that work under Phase 2B has...

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Health and Wellness Minister, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, is calling on health regions to ensure that they protect, coordinate as efficiently as possible and are accountable for the plants over which they have responsibility. He was speaking at the ceremony to hand over the completed fencing project at Lionel Town Hospital in Clarendon recently. “Oftentimes some of the expenditure...

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