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Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (second left), observes while Director of Sales, Enterprise and IT Solutions at C and W Business, Carol Robertson (right), points out features of a Telemedicine system that was launched as a pilot at the Kitson Town Health Centre in St. Catherine on October 10. The system allows persons in remote areas to access medical specialists at the UHWI, in conjunction with Cable and Wireless Jamaica. Also pictured (from left) are Technical Director at the South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA), Maureen Golding, and Medical Chief of Staff at the UHWI, Dr. Carl Bruce.
Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (second left), observes while Director of Sales, Enterprise and IT Solutions at C and W Business, Carol Robertson (right), points out features of a Telemedicine system that was launched as a pilot at the Kitson Town Health Centre in St. Catherine on October 10. The system allows persons in remote areas to access medical specialists at the UHWI, in conjunction with Cable and Wireless Jamaica. Also pictured (from left) are Technical Director at the South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA), Maureen Golding, and Medical Chief of Staff at the UHWI, Dr. Carl Bruce.

Telemedicine Pilot Project

The Government has embarked on a Telemedicine pilot project for persons in remote areas to access medical specialists at the University Hospital of the West Indies, in conjunction with a major telecommunications provider. It is being done under the Telemedicine...
Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (right), shares a light moment with (from left): Medical Chief of Staff at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), Dr. Carl Bruce; Regional Technical Director at the South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA), Maureen Golding; and Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Fund (NHF), Everton Anderson, while in the dental room at the $69-million upgraded Kitson Town Health Centre in St. Catherine on October 10.
Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (right), shares a light moment with (from left): Medical Chief of Staff at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), Dr. Carl Bruce; Regional Technical Director at the South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA), Maureen Golding; and Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Fund (NHF), Everton Anderson, while in the dental room at the $69-million upgraded Kitson Town Health Centre in St. Catherine on October 10.

Kitson Town Gets Upgraded Health Centre
Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (left), conversing with Executive Director, Heart Foundation of Jamaica, Deborah Chen (centre) and Chair, Heart Foundation of Jamaica and Consultant Cardiologist, Dr. Andrene Chung, during the press launch of the third phase of the obesity-prevention campaign, at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel in St. Andrew on October 11. The event was also used to recognise World Obesity Day.
Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (left), conversing with Executive Director, Heart Foundation of Jamaica, Deborah Chen (centre) and Chair, Heart Foundation of Jamaica and Consultant Cardiologist, Dr. Andrene Chung, during the press launch of the third phase of the obesity-prevention campaign, at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel in St. Andrew on October 11. The event was also used to recognise World Obesity Day.

Health Minister Calls for Behaviour Change to Tackle Obesity
Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (right), shakes hands with newly certified dietician Corporal Terrel Pencle (centre) of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF). Occasion was the graduation ceremony for the first batch of 50 participants in the Supervised Practice Programme (SPP) of the Jamaica Association of Professionals in Nutrition and Dietetics, held on Tuesday (October 9) at The Knutsford Court Hotel in New Kingston. Sharing in the moment is fellow graduate and dietician, Hanover Health Department, Carol Raynor.
Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (right), shakes hands with newly certified dietician Corporal Terrel Pencle (centre) of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF). Occasion was the graduation ceremony for the first batch of 50 participants in the Supervised Practice Programme (SPP) of the Jamaica Association of Professionals in Nutrition and Dietetics, held on Tuesday (October 9) at The Knutsford Court Hotel in New Kingston. Sharing in the moment is fellow graduate and dietician, Hanover Health Department, Carol Raynor.

Newly Certified Dieticians Encouraged to Become Jamaica Moves Ambassadors
Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Fund (NHF), Everton Anderson, addresses a Rotary Club of Savanna-la-Mar meeting, held at Hotel Commingle in Westmoreland, on Tuesday (October 9).
Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Fund (NHF), Everton Anderson, addresses a Rotary Club of Savanna-la-Mar meeting, held at Hotel Commingle in Westmoreland, on Tuesday (October 9).

Faster Processing of NHF Cards at Savanna-La-Mar Hospital

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Mayor of Black River, Councillor Derrick Sangster.
Health & Wellness

St. Elizabeth Infirmary to Get New Administrative Block

Mayor of Black River, Councillor Derrick Sangster, says that funds have been allocated to construct a new administrative block at the St. Elizabeth Infirmary. “We will be starting (the work) in short order. After that is completed, the grounds of the infirmary will be complete in terms of appearance and functionality,” he said in a recent interview with JIS News....
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Acting Director of Health Services, Planning and Integration, at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Simone Spence, displays an equipped bag for primary healthcare midwives. Dr. Spence is also Coordinator of the €22-million Programme for the Reduction of Maternal and Child Mortality (PROMAC).
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Childbearing Women Called on to Make Personal Health Management A Priority

With Jamaica making steady progress in the reduction of maternal and child mortality, there is a call for childbearing women to make personal health management a priority. According to Acting Director of Health Services, Planning and Integration at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Simone Spence, even though the public health system has been strengthened in recent years to offer critical...
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Chief Medical Officer in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Jacqueline Bisasor-McKenzie, addresses a press conference on the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), held at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices on Monday (October 8). At left is Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton.
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Health Ministry Administering HPV Vaccine to Second Cohort of Girls

The second cohort of grade-seven girls are now benefiting from the Ministry of Health’s Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccination programme. The move is a proactive measure by the Government to protect girls against cervical cancer, which takes the lives of hundreds of women in the country per year and hundreds of thousands more worldwide. The vaccine is being administered to...
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Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (right), addresses a post-United Nations High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) press conference held at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices on Monday (October 8). At left is Head, Health Promotion & Protection Division, Ministry of Health, Dr. Simone Spence.
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World Leaders Commit to Tackling NCDs

Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, says world leaders who participated in the third United Nations (UN) High-level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) have committed to taking steps to tackle the issue. “The NCD crisis is real and a danger to all of us. The statistics suggest that close to four billion of the seven-billion population of the...
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More HOPE Workers for Westmoreland Vector Control Programme

Vector Control Officer at the Westmoreland Health Department, Ryan Morris, says the Aedes Aegypti mosquito population in the parish should decrease with the help of the second cohort of 25 Housing, Opportunity, Production and Employment (HOPE) programme vector control workers. Mr. Morris informed JIS News that the mosquito population had increased with the recent heavy rains, and the HOPE programme...
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Health, Promotion and Education Officer at the Westmoreland Health Department, Gerald Miller, addresses a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) ‘Think Tank’, at the agency’s Montego Bay Regional Office recently.
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Jamaica Moves Programme in Six Schools in Westmoreland

Health, Promotions and Education Officer at the Westmoreland Health Department, Gerald Miller, says the Jamaica Moves Programme has been implemented in six pilot schools in Westmoreland. The six institutions are: Petersfield High School; Petersfield Primary and Infant School; Mt Airy Primary and Infant School; Blauwearie Primary School; Unity Primary School; and Little London Primary. “We have been working with them...
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Health & Wellness

Compassionate Care Programme Launched At Falmouth Public General Hospital

Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton says a cultural change in service delivery within Jamaica’s health facilities is on the horizon, with the launch of the Compassionate Care Programme. He stated that practitioners in public health will spark a cultural shift in service delivery, which will in turn enhance the healing process of patients who visit the facilities....
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