The Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, is hosting a two-day National Workshop on Workers’ Health. The workshop, which began yesterday (April 27), is being held under the theme ‘Healthy Workplaces – Healthy Spaces – Healthy Workers’ at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston. Bringing remarks at the opening, Pan American Health...

The Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) will offer limited services until further notice due to an electrical shortage that has left some areas without power. Persons requiring emergency hospital care are being urged to seek medical assistance at other health facilities until normalcy is restored. The hospital’s management is working assiduously to ensure the resumption of normal operations in the shortest...

Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, says the prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) has been the greatest public health threat to Jamaica’s development for the past 50 years. Dr. Tufton was addressing a University Diabetes Outreach Conference at the Jewel Resort in Runaway Bay, St. Ann on April 21. He pointed out that, globally, 36 million people die...

Health Minister, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, says work will be undertaken this year to upgrade the Type C May Pen Hospital to a Type B facility. “We’ll be sending the architects and the other professionals and we’re going to find the budget. We’ll be doing the work to upgrade the hospital. This will mean added rooms, added infrastructure and...

Patients at the May Pen Hospital, in Clarendon, will benefit from the establishment of an Erin Radiology Centre as of May 1. Making the announcement, Transport and Mining Minister, and Central Clarendon Member of Parliament, Hon. Mike Henry, said the centre’s establishment will not cost the Government. “It will provide (among other services) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) service...the only one...

The Spanish Town Hospital is to benefit from the donation of a portable suction machine from the Social Development Commission (SDC). The handing over ceremony will take place on Wednesday (April 19) at the SDC’s St. Catherine parish office located on Port Henderson Road. The piece of equipment was bought using funds raised by the entity’s St. Catherine Agency Network...

Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, is hailing the Adventist Church for allowing the use of its facility in St. James to accommodate services offered by the Cornwall Regional Hospital. Since March, the Western Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists has been housing several outpatient services as a result of noxious fumes emanating from the central ventilation system of...