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Executive Director of the National Council on Drug Abuse (NCDA), Michael Tucker, speaking at a JIS Think Tank on the findings of the 2013 National Secondary School Survey on substance abuse among students.

NCDA Calls for Partnership to Address Youth Substance Abuse

The National Council on Drug Abuse (NCDA) is calling for a multi-sectoral approach to address the misuse of substances by young people. The call comes against the background of the findings of the 2013 National Secondary School Survey, which shows...

Executive Director of the Jamaica Cancer Society, Yulit Gordon, addressing a JIS ‘Think Tank’ on August 26. She is urging companies to encourage men to do screening for prostate cancer.

JCS Calls for Stronger Action to Address Prostate Cancer

Executive Director of the Jamaica Cancer Society, Yulit Gordon (left) addresses a Think Tank to launch Prostate Cancer Awareness Month on July 26 at the offices of the JIS. Also pictured are Dr. Audley Betton, General Practitioner and Prostate Cancer Survivor and Dr. Belinda Morrison, Consultant Urologist at the University Hospital of the West Indies and Lecturer and Head of Urology at the University of the West Indies.

Companies Urged to Encourage Men to Do Screening for Prostate Cancer

Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson, addressing the annual general meeting of the Jamaica Association of Professionals in Nutrition and Dietetics (JAPINAD), held on August 22, at the University of Technology (UTech), in St. Andrew.

Consultation Before Proposed Alcohol Policy

President, World Federation of Consuls, Arnold Foote (second left); Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. Hon. A.J. Nicholson (third left) and Chief Executive Officer, University Hospital of the West Indies, Dr. Cecil White (right), participate in the cutting of a ribbon to open the ambulance donated to the University Hospital of the West Indies by the Government of Turkey. The unit was handed over on Thursday, August 14 on the compound of the University Hospital of the West Indies. Looking on (from left) are: Member of Parliament for Eastern St. Andrew, Andre Hylton and Hon. R. Danny Williams, who spearheaded the effort to get the ambulance.

UHWI Gets Fully Equipped Ambulance From Turkey

12 years ago Health & Wellness

Stricter Monitoring Of Health Care Delivery

Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson, says there will be stricter monitoring of health care delivery, even as a customer service policy for the health sector is being finalized. “Even when you put a policy in place, the policy needs to be monitored. The question of training of persons (in customer service is important), not only our health professionals...

Health Minister, Hon. Dr Fenton Ferguson (right), discusses the day’s programme with Head of the Conference of Parties Convention Secretariat, World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tibor Szilagyi (left), and PAHO/WHO Representative in Jamaica, Margareta Sköld, at a meeting which the Ministry hosted with the visiting team from the Secretariat of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), to gather information from stakeholders on the implementation of the Convention in their programmes, strategies, and plans. The forum was held at the Terra Nova Hotel in Kingston, on August 19.

12 years ago Health & Wellness

Health Ministry Hosts Meeting With WHO on Tobacco Control

The Ministry of Health, today (August 19), hosted a meeting with a team from the Secretariat of the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), to gather information from stakeholders on the implementation of the Convention in their programmes, strategies and plans. The parties are also examining the challenges and opportunities, and identifying gaps which require intervention....

Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson (at podium), addressing the recent official launch of the Programme for the Reduction of Maternal and Child Mortality (PROMAC), held at the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), in Kingston. Others (from left) are: Deputy Director General of the PIOJ, Barbara Scott; Deputy Dean at the UWI Faculty of Medical Sciences, Professor Minerva Thame; Head of the European Union (EU) in Jamaica, Ambassador Paola Amadei, and Director General of the PIOJ, Colin Bullock.

12 years ago Health & Wellness

New Project to Improve Care for Expectant Mothers and Newborns

The Government is implementing a health improvement project for expectant mothers and newborns over the next three years, which will see 86 medical personnel receiving specialized training in critical areas relating to the care of children. Under the $3.3 billion European Union (EU) funded initiative, training is being done by the University of the West Indies in a number of...

12 years ago EducationHealth & Wellness

Chikungunya Prevention Strategies to be Developed for Schools

Representatives of the Ministries of Health, and Education, are scheduled to meet on August 19 to explore and develop strategies to prevent any possible threat of a spread which the Chikungunya virus could pose for schools, currently preparing for September’s start of the 2014/15 academic year. In noting that the Education Ministry deems the virus a “major threat” to schools,...

The Ministry of Health has confirmed two additional locally transmitted cases of Chikungunya. This brings the total number of confirmed cases for Jamaica to ten.

12 years ago Health & Wellness

Ten Locally Transmitted Cases of Chikungunya Confirmed

The Ministry of Health has confirmed two additional locally transmitted cases of Chikungunya. Director, Emergency, Disaster Management and Special Services, Dr. Marion Bullock DuCasse said the positive results were received on August 15 from samples sent to the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA). This brings the total number of confirmed cases for Jamaica to ten – eight from local transmission...

12 years ago Health & Wellness

Report Poor Treatment at Public Health Facilities – Dr. Ferguson

Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson, is appealing to persons, who experience poor treatment at public health institutions, to make a report to the Ministry so that proper investigations can be carried out and where necessary, sanctions applied. The Minister made the appeal against the background of recent reports of ill-treatment of patients at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital in...

12 years ago Health & Wellness

Health Ministry Receives IV Fluids from Food For The Poor

The public health system has received a boost to its stock of Intravenous Fluids (IV), with a donation valued at $1.75 million from local charity Food For the Poor (FFP). The items were handed over to Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson on August 13, at FFP’s offices in Spanish Town, St. Catherine. The donation came weeks after reports...