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Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (right), prepares to cut the ribbon to open the new mammography unit at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) on Thursday (March 7). Looking on (from left) are UHWI Board Chairman, James Moss-Solomon; and Minister of Science, Energy and Technology, Hon. Fayval Williams.

UHWI Opens $78 Million Mammography Unit

The University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), on Thursday (March 7), opened a new mammography unit at its Women’s Imaging Centre, boasting advanced technology for the detection of breast cancer. Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, welcomed...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, tables the 2019/20 Estimates of Expenditure in the House of Representatives on February 14.

Government Allocates $143 Million for Three Diagnostic Centres

Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (right), in conversation with (from left): former Chairman of the National Health Fund (NHF), Ryland Campbell, former Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Fund (NHF), Rae Barrett; Chief Executive Officer of the NHF, Everton Anderson; and Deputy Chairman, NHF, Dr. Dana Morris Dixon. Occasion was the NHF 15th Anniversary Banquet, held yesterday (February 28) at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston.

Green Paper on National Health Insurance Scheme to be Tabled

The Registrar General’s Department (RGD) has revised its record updating application forms to improve service delivery and customer experience.

RGD Calling on Persons to Collect Documents

Consultant Pulmonologist and Senior Medical Officer at the National Chest Hospital, in St. Andrew, Dr. Terry Baker, makes a presentation at the Healthy Lifestyle Youth Forum, hosted by the Jamaica Cancer Society at the Courtleigh Auditorium in New Kingston on February 28.

Students Warned Not to Smoke

7 years ago Budget 2019/2020EducationHealth & Wellness

Social Security Ministry Proposes Increase in PATH Cash Grants

The Ministry of Labour and Social Security has proposed an average increase of 16.4 per cent to the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) cash grants, with effect from June 2019. This will benefit an estimated 284,000 persons who fall within the vulnerable groups of children, the elderly, pregnant/lactating women, persons with disabilities, and poor adults. This was...

Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (third left), with (from left) physical activity instructor, Espe Johnson; Senior Medical Officer at the Savanna-La-Mar Hospital, Dr. Alfred Dawes; Public Relations Consultant with the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), Mexine Bisasor; Parish Manager at Hanover Health Services, Dawn Harvey; and Chairman for the Noel Holmes Hosptial Management Committee, Allaine Harvey, at the Ministry

7 years ago Health & Wellness

Health Centres to be Rehabilitated

Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, says that a number of clinics across the island will be rehabilitated this year in a bid to improve access of Jamaicans to primary healthcare. Jamaica has 320 health centres islandwide, which are tasked with providing basic health services as well as outreach at the community level. “We are looking at how...

Health Minister, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, treats a drum of water to kill mosquito larvae, during his tour of Clarendon recently. Observing (from left) are Clarendon Resident, Cerrice Davidson; Vector Control Officer, Kemar Gladstone; and Councillor for the Mocho Division, Romaine Morris.

7 years ago Health & Wellness

Health Minister Tours Communities in Clarendon

Health Minister, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, and a touring party visited homes in several Clarendon communities recently, to identify mosquito breeding sites for eradication. Dr. Tufton was visiting the communities as he continued his all-island tour to gauge the readiness of the regional health authorities to eradicate the dengue carrying Aedes aegypti mosquito. The areas visited included Gratton Avenue,...

Representatives from United Kingdom-based charity, Rejuvenate Jamaica Hospitals, Rohan Brown and Joan Lindsay, along with Director of Nursing Services for the Victoria Jubilee Hospital, Elise Fairweather Blackwood; Chief Executive Officer, Kingston Public Hospital and Victoria Jubilee Hospital, Colleen Wright; and Senior Medical Officer at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital, Dr. Rishi Chand, view one of five incubators donated to the Victoria Jubilee Hospital by the charity, during a handover ceremony held on February 22 at the hospital’s North Street address in Kingston.

7 years ago Health & Wellness

Victoria Jubilee Hospital Receives Equipment

The Victoria Jubilee Hospital has received medical equipment valued at US$6,700 from United Kingdom-based charity, Rejuvenate Jamaica Hospitals, to improve its neonatal services. The equipment, five incubators and five phototherapy devices, were handed over during a ceremony held on February 22, at the hospital’s North Street address in Kingston. The charity will also be donating two blood pressure machines and...

7 years ago Health & Wellness

RGD to Host Registration Fair in Gayle, St. Mary

Residents of Gayle and its environs in St. Mary, will be able to access late registration and late entry of name services, free of cost at the Registrar General’s Department (RGD) registration fair slated for Tuesday, February 26 at the Gayle Seventh-day Adventist Church. Speaking with JIS News, RGD’s Marketing and Planning Manager, Nicole Whyte noted that the fair is...

Vector control workers at the Ministry of Health ‘Taking Responsibility Road Tour’, at the Walter Hall Anglican Parish Church in Lucea, Hanover, on Thursday, February 21.

7 years ago Health & Wellness

Over 50 Persons Employed as Vector Control Workers in Hanover

Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, says over 50 vector control workers have been employed in Hanover, to assist in the destruction of mosquito-breeding sites in the parish. Speaking at the Ministry of Health ‘Taking Responsibility Road Tour’, at the Walter Hall Anglican Parish Church in Lucea, Hanover, on February 21, Dr. Tufton said the workers have been...

Health Minister, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (centre) in discussion with (from left): Parish Manager for St. James Public Health Services, Charmaine Williams-Beckford; Member of Parliament for Central St. James, Heroy Clarke; Regional Director of the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), Errol Greene; and Special Advisor to the Health Ministry, Dr. Stephanie Reid, following the launch of the Ministry’s Compassionate Care Programme at the Montego Bay Comprehensive Health Centre (Type 5) in St. James on February 21.

7 years ago Health & Wellness

Coordinated Fight Against Dengue Continues in St. James

Health Minister, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton says the coordinated fight against the dengue virus in St. James is continuing, with over 10,000 visits conducted in communities across the parish by Vector Control workers. He stated that vector control coordinators have been vigorously assisting in the elimination of mosquito breeding sites in the parish, having identified and destroyed approximately 1500...