A total of 225 cataract patients at the Mandeville Regional Hospital in Manchester have benefitted from well-needed surgeries, which were performed by a team of surgeons from the Unites States (US) and India. US-based Diaspora charity, Mind, Body and Soul Health Ministries, which has been working in Jamaica for several years, organised the medical mission, through sponsorship from internationally renowned...

Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson, is calling on all Jamaicans to come together and designate a day to undertake community clean-up activities. He pointed out that the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, which transmit the Chikungunya virus, breeds in and around areas where people gather, so the school, home, church and business places should be a part of this clean-up....

Residents in and around the town of Black River, in St. Elizabeth, will be updated on many health issues, including Chikungunya, at a public forum on Thursday, September 18. The forum will be held at the St. Elizabeth Parish Library, in Black River, commencing at 4:30 p.m., and is part of a series of Town Hall meetings that the Southern...

Health Minister, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson, says the Ministry has embarked on several activities aimed at supporting the Government’s overall goal of improving the nation’s nutritional needs and provisions. These, he says, include developing policies and guidelines, and having dialogue with food industry stakeholders. Speaking at the launch of the Government’s Inter-Ministerial Integrated School Feeding Programme, at the Planning Institute...

Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson, says the global and national burden and threat of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) constitute a major public health challenge, which undermines social and economic development. He pointed out that World Health Organization (WHO) statistics show that an estimated 63 per cent of deaths across the world are due to NCDs, particularly cardiovascular diseases (48...

Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson, has praised the Wisynco Group for its monetary donation of $250,000 to the Lupus Foundation of Jamaica, which will help to bolster activities of the entity, while increasing awareness about the auto-immune disease in the country. The presentation was made during a ceremony at the Kingston Public Hospital, on September 5. “I’m very...

The Ministry of Health is encouraging School Administrators to continue efforts to ensure that mosquito breeding sites are removed from school grounds. Director, Emergency, Disaster Management and Special Services, Dr. Marion Bullock DuCasse says this should be an ongoing exercise especially since the Aedes aegypti mosquito which spreads Chikungunya mostly bites in the day time and is generally found in...