The newly renovated Robins Hall Health Centre was officially re-opened on Wednesday (Dec. 12), with improved facilities to serve the thousands of persons, who reside in the area and surrounding districts in Northern Manchester. The Culture, Health, Arts, Science, and Education (CHASE) Fund provided $30M for the rehabilitation of the clinic, which had been closed for some 30 years. Works...

A mobile testing unit, valued at over $12 million, which has been handed over to the South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA), will enable health personnel to go into communities to conduct human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) tests. The unit was donated by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the United States Presidents’ Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief...

Health Minister, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, says the road map for the development of the National Health Insurance Scheme for Jamaica is now available. The road map is expected to guide the implementation of the scheme, taking into account elements such as benefits package, levels and sources of financing, legislative changes, provider network and the requisite administrative and organisational...

The Culture, Health, Arts, Sports and Education (CHASE) Fund has invested some $4.2 billion in healthcare in Jamaica, including the building of 19 health centres and providing support for others throughout the country. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the CHASE Fund, W. Billy Heaven, says the latest health centre has been built in Robins Hall, Manchester, at a cost of...

The Ministry of Health this year doubled the number of communities where its vector control programme was administered up to the end of September, to 1,000. This, according to the Head of the Ministry’s Health Promotion and Protection Branch, Dr. Simone Spence, is up from an average of 500 between January and May. She was speaking at a press briefing...

The Ministry of Health is assuring that there is no outbreak of dengue fever in Jamaica and continues to implore persons to destroy breeding grounds for the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which transmits the disease. “The first line of defence is to control or attempt to control your own environment as it relates to (mosquito) breeding sites,” said portfolio Minister, Dr....

Acting Chief Medical Officer in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie, has informed that the flu vaccine is now available to high-risk groups, including children, the elderly and persons with immuno-compromised conditions such as cancer and diabetes. “These are the persons that we try to protect, because they are the most vulnerable to the influenza virus and so, therefore,...