Health Minister, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, has lauded Food For the Poor for its commitment to providing shelter for needy Jamaicans. “Food For the Poor represents so much that should be admired within the society. This is an organisation that commits itself to do good for mankind, and that deserves commendation and recognition. It is about empowering people to...

The Registrar General’s Department (RGD) has revised its record updating application forms as part of efforts to improve customer service delivery. The forms that have been modified are those used for re-registration, late entry of names, late registration of births and deaths and correction of error, whether births, deaths or marriages. The RGD’s Customer Care Manager, Trudy Edwards, told JIS...

Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, has officially opened a new multi-million dollar state-of-the-art Paediatric Cardiac Centre at the Bustamante Hospital for Children. The centre currently offers treatment and surgeries for children living with congenital heart defects. It is the only one of its kind in Jamaica, and it is complete with a 10-bed intensive care unit and...

Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, has announced that a new Cardiac Ward will be constructed and equipped on the grounds of the Bustamante Hospital for Children, at a cost of between $90 million and $100 million. Addressing the opening of a new Paediatric Cardiac Centre at the Hospital on Monday (April 15), Dr. Tufton said the new...

The new Paediatric Cardiac Unit at the Bustamante Hospital for Children is now operational. For the period April 8 to 12, a volunteer medical mission team from the United Kingdom, organised through Chain of Hope, performed procedures on children suffering from congenital heart conditions in the unit, alongside the local cardiac team at the hospital. Ten children were successfully treated...

Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, says more applied research should be conducted at the national level to find solutions to health problems. He argues that research is important in informing the process of developing solutions to the myriad and complex health conditions affecting the population. The Minister was speaking at the University of Technology (UTech) inaugural Professorial...

Head of the Department of Ophthalmology at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH), Dr. Angella Mattis, is reporting that the Bright Journey Medical Mission team has completed almost 200 cataract surgeries in the first week and a half of the mission. The 50-member team from China, comprising ophthalmologists, nurses, and technical support staff, which arrived in the island on March 27,...