A $2.3 billion state-of-the-art private hospital was officially opened in Rose Hall, St. James, on October 8. The first world facility - Hospiten Montego Bay -  is the only private Jamaican hospital with an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), outside the city of Kingston, and will be catering to the medical needs of both local and overseas patients. "We are here to stay,...

Medical Officer of Health at the St. James Public Health Services, Dr. Marcia Graham, has lauded the Montego Bay/Atlanta Sister Cities Vin Martin Memorial Health Mission, which is delivering quality health care to thousands of citizens across western Jamaica. Highlighting a noticeable expansion of the annual health fair, in which five rural communities have been added to the outreach of...

Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson, says there is no case of the Zika virus (ZIKV) in Jamaica. “Based on advice from my technical team, this is not so. Outside of Brazil, there have been no cases confirmed in any country in the Latin American and Caribbean region, including Jamaica,” he said. The Health Minister was addressing a press...

Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Marion Bullock DuCasse says the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has reported that the sample which was sent by the Ministry and received by them on Monday (September 28, 2015) tested negative for chikungunya, dengue and zika viruses. She says however that the Ministry will continue to intensify its Integrated Vector Management Programme given that this...

Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson, says public health officials are busy sanitising schools affected by the Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease, and where necessary they will decide on the closure of the institutions. In an interview with JIS News, Dr. Ferguson informed that as of September 30, some 58 schools and 123 students were confirmed to have been...

The Jamaica Cancer Society is reporting that more men are heeding the call to take Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) tests and Digital Rectal Examinations (DRE) for prostate cancer. In an interview with JIS News, Executive Director of the Jamaica Cancer Society, Yulit Gordon, said the response was largely due to women wanting to get the men in their lives screened....

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has lauded the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF) on its programme offered to adolescent mothers. The Foundation, which was established in 1978 in response to the high occurrence of teenage pregnancies in Jamaica, provides continuing education for adolescent mothers and, where possible, facilitates the return of high school drop outs to institutions that...