Children and their families in Clarendon turned out in their numbers to collect hygiene kits from UNICEF on Tuesday July 30. Hundreds of people from Rocky Point, Portland Cottage and Lionel Town benefitted from the collaborative effort of the teams from UNICEF and Food for the Poor (FFP) who journeyed to support the communities that have been left reeling from...

The Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) is urging the public to implement vector-control measures in their homes, in response to the increase in the region’s Aedes index. The index, which is the ratio, expressed as a percentage, of the number of houses in a well-defined area where actual breeding of the Aedes aegypti mosquito is found, has increased from seven...

Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, on Friday (July 26), officially opened an operating theatre at the Falmouth Public General Hospital in Trelawny, which was extensively renovated at a cost of $45 million. With the completion of the works, the hospital now has four equipped and functioning theatres, enhancing its capacity to deliver quality healthcare services...

The Government has significantly boosted the mosquito-eradication team for the parish of Clarendon, with the addition of 121 temporary vector-control workers, and the engagement of four private contractors. Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, said it has been an extraordinary time for the breeding of mosquitoes since the passage of Hurricane Beryl, with increased water and...

The Government is pushing for the upskilling of healthcare workers with an annual scholarship fund of $75 million, according to Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Dunstan Bryan. The Permanent Secretary, who represented portfolio Minister, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, at the Healthcare Workers Appreciation Month National Church Service on July 21, at the Sts. Peter and...

The St. Ann’s Bay Regional Hospital (SABRH) hosted a successful 10th annual Scientific Conference, on Sunday, July 21, under the theme ‘Revitalising & Refocusing – Mining Our Own Data in Healthcare’. The conference serves as a forum for the research findings from studies undertaken by staff members of the hospital in various specialty areas to be shared with their peers...

The St. James Public Health Department has ramped up vector-control activities in the parish, following a spike in the Aedes aegypti Index since June. Speaking at the Disaster Preparedness, Hazard Mitigation and Safety Committee meeting of the St. James Municipal Corporation, on Thursday (July 18), Deputy Chief Public Health Inspector for St. James, Nadia Burgess, said increased rainfall has heightened...