Some 60 healthcare workers across the island have benefited from training to identify and handle cases of gender based violence. The training was conducted recently by the National Family Planning Board (NFPB), in collaboration with Health Policy Plus (HP+). The initiative was carried out as a training of trainers in the field, who will subsequently administer a similar training of...

The Alexandria Community Hospital located in St. Ann has become Jamaica’s second medical institution to be accredited as a Baby-Friendly Hospital (BFH). The facility, which offers outpatient and maternity services, joins the Princess Margret Hospital, having been accredited by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on April 12. Speaking at the accreditation ceremony held on the grounds of the hospital,...

The Government has provided $2 million worth of medical equipment to the Santa Cruz Health Centre of Excellence in St. Elizabeth, which will enhance healthcare services to citizens served by the facility. The items include a standby generator, phlebotomy chair, diagnostic set for eyes and nose, electrocardiograph (ECG) machine, and a refrigerator for storing specimen and vaccines. The centre will...

The Registrar General’s Department (RGD) is appealing to persons who have applied and paid for documents and have not collected them to do so now. Marketing and Planning Manager at RGD, Nicole Whyte, told JIS News that there are thousands of uncollected birth, marriage and death certificates in storage at the agency’s offices islandwide. “Over the years, persons have applied...

The Ministry of Health will be donating $250,000 to establish a computer lab at the Jamaica Society for the Blind (JSB) through the ‘Everyone’s a Winner’ 5k and 10k run/walk on Sunday, April 29, at Hope Gardens in St. Andrew. Speaking at the media launch for the event Tuesday (April 10) at the JSB headquarters on Old Hope Road in...

Health Minister, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, says approximately 90 per cent of the services provided at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in St. James have been temporarily relocated to other institutions to facilitate renovations to rectify poor air quality affecting patients and staff at the facility. Dr. Tufton, who made the disclosure during a press conference at the Ministry...

Health Minister, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, has assured that the Government will continue to take a responsible approach in dealing with the situation affecting the Cornwall Regional Hospital in St. James. He noted that 33 out of 38 services offered by the facility have been relocated to the Falmouth Hospital in Trelawny. “It has taken us a year to...