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Regional Health Authorities Audits and Conformance Reports Now Available

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...

Coordinator of the Greater Involvement of Persons Living with HIV/AIDS (GIPA) programme at the National Family Planning Board (NFPB), Ainsley Reid, addresses a recent JIS Think Tank.

Govt’s Sustained Support For Persons With HIV/AIDS Hailed

Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson (seated, right); and Associate, Harold Morrison and Robert Woodstock Associates, Lisa Seivright (seated, left), sign copies of a contract for the design and equipping of maternal and neonatal high dependency units within the public health sector, during a ceremony at the Knutsford Court Hotel in New Kingston on Tuesday (November 3). Also pictured in the background (from left) are: British High Commissioner to Jamaica, His Excellency David Fitton; Head, Delegation of the European Union to Jamaica, Ambassador Paola Amadei; Deputy Director General of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), Barbara Scott; and Permanent Secretary in the Health Ministry, Dr. Kevin Harvey. The contract signing falls under the $3 billion (€22 million) Programme for the Reduction of Maternal and Child Mortality (PROMAC), funded by the European Union (EU), which is aimed at reducing the incidence of neonatal and maternal deaths in Jamaica.

Gov’t Committed to Providing Quality Maternal and Neonatal Care

Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson (right); and Executive Director of the National Family Planning Board (NFPB), Dr. Denise
Chevannes-Vogel, engage in light discussion shortly before signing a Memorandum of Understanding (Mou) to undertake a $39 million (€300,000) programme aimed at improving health seeking behaviour among pregnant women. The signing took place during a ceremony held at the Knutsford Court Hotel in New Kingston on November 3. The ceremony also involved the signing of contracts for the design and equipping of maternal and neonatal high dependency units within the public health sector. The signings fall under the $3 billion (€22 million) Programme for the Reduction of Maternal and Child Mortality (PROMAC), funded by the European Union (EU), which is aimed at reducing the incidence of neonatal and maternal deaths in Jamaica. — Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson (right); and Executive Director of the National Family Planning Board (NFPB), Dr. Denise Chevannes-Vogel, engage in light discussion shortly before signing a Memorandum of Understanding (Mou) to undertake a $39 million (€300,000) programme aimed at improving health seeking behaviour among pregnant women. The signing took place during a ceremony held at the Knutsford Court Hotel in New Kingston on November 3. The ceremony also involved the signing of contracts for the design and equipping of maternal and neonatal high dependency units within the public health sector. The signings fall under the $3 billion (€22 million) Programme for the Reduction of Maternal and Child Mortality (PROMAC), funded by the European Union (EU), which is aimed at reducing the incidence of neonatal and maternal deaths in Jamaica.

Expectant Women To Benefit From $39 Million Programme

Director of Health Promotion and Prevention at the National Family Planning Board (NFPB), Andrea Campbell, speaking at a recent Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Think Tank.

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Gov’t Committed To Providing Quality Maternal And Neonatal Care

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...

10 years ago Health & Wellness

Medical Mission in Hanover and St. James Nov. 9-13

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...

10 years ago Health & Wellness

Audit of Regional Health Authorities To Be Released

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...

10 years ago Health & Wellness

New CEO and Senior Director Appointed at UHWI

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...

10 years ago Health & Wellness

Health Professionals Urged To Maintain Standards

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...

10 years ago Health & Wellness

Jamaicans with Diabetes Not Managing Their Condition

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...

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Public Health Officials Urged to Form Relationships with Communities

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...