In another two years, key stakeholders in the health sector will be equipped with informed data on eating patterns of Jamaicans aged 16-60, courtesy of a National Health Fund (NHF) $14.6 million survey being undertaken by the University of Technology (UTech). Under the project called JA-LIVITY, spearheaded by the College of Health Sciences at UTech, several entities dealing with health...

Minister of Health, Hon. Horace Dalley met with the eight families of the babies who died during a bacterial infection outbreak at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the University Hospital of the West Indies. The meeting which lasted close to three hours took place at the UHWI Board Room on Thursday, November 12, 2015. Minister Dalley empathised with the mothers...

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has provided J$29.94 million (US$250,000) in grant funding support for the Government’s formulation of a 10-year health sector development plan for Jamaica. This provision is being facilitated under a technical cooperation agreement and will finance the sector’s strengthening, through strategic planning to improve systems and structures at primary and secondary facilities. The aim is to...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, has instructed the newly-appointed Health Minister, Hon. Horace Dalley, to make every effort to correct the shortcomings in the health sector as quickly as possible. She also expressed confidence in Mr. Dalley’s ability to bring critical improvement to the health sector in short order, noting that he is familiar with the system,...

Former Minister of Health Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson on Friday, November 6, broke ground at the site at which the Linear Accelerator (LINAC) machine for radiation treatment will be placed at the Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay, St. James. The hospital, will house one of the two machines in its Cancer Care Centre of Excellence which is being developed....

Minister of Health, Dr. Fenton Ferguson is advising that the Regional Health Authorities Audits and Conformance Reports are now available for viewing on the Ministry of Health’s website. Kindly visit www.moh.gov.jm. Prime Minister the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller has given instructions for the audits and reports to be published to the nation on Friday, November 6, (earlier than originally planned). The...

The National Family Planning Board (NFPB) is hailing the Government’s commitment to enabling access to treatment for persons living with HIV/AIDS, despite resource constraints. “We are very happy that the Government continues to support access to treatment because, around the world, many other governments are worried about their ability to continue treatment access to their population,” said Coordinator for the...