Health and Wellness Minister, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, is urging Jamaicans to treat the three-day national dengue cleanup exercise, which gets under way on Friday (January 24), as one step in their approach to eradicating mosquitoes transmitting this and other diseases, over the long-term. Speaking at a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Think Tank at the Agency’s Head Office in...

Twelve hospitals across the island have received medical equipment valued at more than $2 million for the treatment of patients with conditions that impair their breathing. The 14 Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure (BPAP) machines, donated by the Jamaicans Abroad Helping Jamaicans at Home (JAHJAH) Foundation, were presented to the institutions during a ceremony at The Knutsford Court Hotel in New...

Kedine Matthews Smith, the mother of a baby boy who recently contracted dengue fever, is warning other parents to take the disease seriously. The St. James resident told JIS News that it was in late September of last year that her then six-month-old son, Jonathan, was diagnosed with dengue and had to be admitted to the Cornwall Regional Hospital. Her...

Mayor of Montego Bay, Councillor Homer Davis, says the sustained efforts of the St. James Health Department and other agencies to eliminate mosquito breeding sites have resulted in a decline in the number of dengue cases in the parish. “The report we got from the public health department at our last monthly meeting indicated that the number of dengue cases...

Regional Vector Control Officer at the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), Ryan Morris, is imploring citizens in western Jamaica to take part in the National Dengue Cleanup drive scheduled for January 24 to 26. The three-day exercise is aimed at destroying mosquito breeding sites in communities, homes, schools, workplaces and churches as part of Government’s fight against the dengue virus....

The Victoria Jubilee Hospital has received medical equipment and supplies valued at US$20,000 from United States-based charity, the Jamaica United Relief Association (JURA), to improve its neonatal services. The equipment and supplies, which have already been put into use by the hospital, include a ventilator, DVT (deep vein thrombosis) pumps, pneumatic cuff, eyesheets, stirrups and larascope. Chairman of the Kingston...

The Little London Health Centre in Westmoreland, has become the latest facility, to be adopted under the Ministry of Health and Wellness’ Adopt-a-Clinic Initiative. The Health Centre has been adopted by the Caribbean Action Network Foundation Initiative (CANFI), whose founder, New York-based attorney, Sandra Smith, is a native of Westmoreland and a past student of Manning’s High School. The clinic...