About $300 million has been spent on upgrading work at the St. Ann’s Bay Regional Hospital, in St. Ann, over the last several years, enabling the facility to be on track of becoming one of the finest health care facilities in the region. Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, not only sees the St. Ann’s Bay Regional Hospital...

More than 70 staff members of the Kingston Public and Victoria Jubilee Hospitals took part in customer relations training over the past year, as part of an initiative to improve their service delivery. The participants included doctors, nurses, paramedics and members of the administrative staff. In an interview with JIS News, Senior Medical Officer of the hospitals, Dr. Orville Morgan,...

As part of its thrust to improve the quality of service and the standard of care in public hospitals and health centres across the island, the Ministry of Health has introduced a Compassionate Care Programme. The launch of the new initiative took place at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital on North Street in Kingston on March 27. In his address, Minister...

The Savanna-la-Mar Public General Hospital has been outfitted with a new C-arm machine, which will help to reduce the number of amputations, by enabling the hospital to undertake more surgeries and reduce patient waiting time. Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, who spoke at the official handover of the machine on March 23, described it as another big...

Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, says the Government is committed to ensuring that primary health care facilities, particularly in rural areas, are adequately equipped to properly serve the communities. The Minister was speaking at the official launch of the five-year sponsorship programme for the Lambs River Health Centre in Westmoreland, by the Jamaica 55 Charities Group UK,...

Community members and health administrators in Hanover have commended the Ministry of Health for undertaking the Adopt a Clinic programme, under which the Cascade Health Centre has become the parish’s first beneficiary. Expressing her gratitude during the official launch of a $1 million per year sponsorship of the health facility by the Jamaica 55 Charities Group UK, on March 22,...

The National Heath Fund (NHF), in an effort to reduce waiting time and improve efficiency at Drug Serv Pharmacy locations, will shortly be rolling out a prescription submission application called the ‘NHF Quick Prescript’. Chief Executive Officer at the NHF, Everton Anderson tells JIS news that the Quick Prescript App, is one of the newest and most innovative strategies being implemented...