Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson, has reaffirmed the Government’s pledge to provide top quality treatment and care for expectant mothers and newborns in Jamaica. In demonstration of its commitment, the Government on Tuesday (November 3) signed contracts valued at $253 million with several entities for the design and equipping of maternal and neonatal high dependency units (HDUs) in...

Scores of residents from Hanover and St. James are expected to benefit from a five-day medical mission from the North East Florida Medical Society. The 57-member delegation will visit Jamaica from November 9-13 and will offer primary, gynaecolological, pain management and dental care with pharmacy provision in select health centres. Patron of the event, the Most Honourable Errald Miller, told...

An audit of the country’s Regional Health Authorities (RHAs) is expected to be released shortly. Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson, who made the announcement today (November 3), said this will done to “prevent further misinformation (going out) to the public and in keeping with openness and transparency.” The Minister was speaking at a signing ceremony at the Knutsford...

Chairman of the Board of the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), Mr. Sterling Soares has announced that Mr. Kevin Allen, Senior Director of Finance at the Hospital, has been appointed to act as Chief Executive Officer, following the resignation of Dr. Cecil White. Dr. White’s resignation was to have taken effect at the end of January 2016. However...

Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Marion Bullock DuCasse, is urging health professionals at hospitals and facilities islandwide to ensure that the standards established by the Ministry of Health are implemented and maintained. “I also urge you to recognise the importance of supervision by the senior teams at all of our health facilities. This cannot be overemphasised and must be an integral...

Jamaicans with diabetes are failing to comply with the advice of healthcare professionals relating to the management and control of the non-communicable disease (NCD). “Based on what we are seeing in the field, the compliance is just not happening. The management isn’t happening tight enough, so we are still getting a lot of complications – kidney failure, heart disease and...

Executive Director of the United States based National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), Dr. David Dyjack, says public health officials must form relationships with local communities, if they are to be successful in the fight against mosquito-borne diseases. Giving the keynote address at the Jamaica Association of Public Health Inspectors (JAPHI) 69th Annual Educational Conference and Exhibition at the Grand Palladium...

The Government has agreed to further assist with the education and training of  nurses, though the provision of scholarships for tertiary studies. This was revealed by Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson, during a ceremony to sign a Heads of Agreement with the Nurses Association of Jamaica (NAJ), for the contract period 2015 to 2017, at Jamaica House, on...

The North East Florida Medical Society will, for the second consecutive year, provide voluntary medical services to residents in the parishes of Hanover and St James from November 9 to 13. The medical professionals, under the leadership of Dr. Kenneth Jones from Florida, USA, will be providing free medical services to residents of Hanover from November 9 to 13 and...