Two cheques, valued over US$3,000, were recently presented to the Port Antonio Infirmary and the Bellevue Hospital, the largest mental institution in the English-speaking Caribbean. The donation is from the Jamaican Embassy in Washington, D.C., United States. Funds were collected at the annual Independence Church Service, held by the Embassy on August 2, 2015. Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign...

Health Minister, Hon. Horace Dalley, has hailed Cuba’s spirit of “internationalism” demonstrated through its provision of critical development support to several countries, particularly to developing nations like Jamaica. He noted that “Cuba has never failed to respond to the call (for assistance) anywhere in the world, during times of natural disaster or difficulties,” pointing to the country’s response to the...

Student and resident doctors stationed at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH), who seek to specialise in reconstructive hand surgery, will soon get the opportunity to be trained in that discipline. Senior Medical Officer at the CRH, Dr. Delroy Fray says the hospital and the Carnegie Hand Institute and Surgery Centre are in dialogue, to come to an agreement which will...

Jamaica has renewed its bilateral partnership with the Republic of Cuba for the provision of technical support to the local health sector. Health Minister, Hon. Horace Dalley, and Cuba’s Ambassador to Jamaica, His Excellency Bernardo Guanche Hernández, on December 3, signed two agreements that will further extend this collaboration, during a ceremony at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices. One of...

Minister of Health, Hon. Horace Dalley, says the Ministry will be hiring and training 1,000 young people as vector control workers, who will go into communities, and along with the Ministry’s vector control teams, identify mosquito breeding sites and destroy them. He also charged senior health officials in the Ministry to mobilise the public in preparation for the Zika virus...

Minister of Health, Hon. Horace Dalley, has praised the Jamaica Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (JAIFA) for the well-needed assistance it has been providing to the health sector over the years. “I believe that this group (JAIFA) is an important stakeholder in the move to improve the health of this country,” he said. Minister Dalley’s speech was delivered by...

The health needs of women and adolescents are too often neglected in humanitarian response to natural disasters and conflicts around the world, even though whether women and girls live or die in a crisis often depends on access to basic sexual and reproductive health services like midwives and HIV prevention, says a new report released today by UNFPA, the United Nations...