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Director of Emergency, Disaster Management and Special Services, Dr. Marion Bullock DuCasse. (FILE)

Protect Children from Mosquito Bites While at School

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...

Executive Director of the Jamaica Council for Persons with Disabilities, Christine Hendricks (left), shares experiences from her recent visit to the United States (US) to observe the execution of the Americans with Disabilities Act, as Jamaica prepares to implement its own disabilities legislation. Listening (from 2nd left) are: Transition Officer at the Jamaica Association for the Deaf, Kimberley Sherlock; Head, Physiotherapy Department, South East Regional Health Authority, Suzanne Harris Henry; and Project Coordinator, Junior Achievement Jamaica, Stephanie McIntyre, who also participated in the trip to the US from July 23 to August 9.

Jamaicans Learn Best Practices In Disabilities Policy

Medical Technician at the Heart Foundation of Jamaica, Claudia Reid, prepares to do blood sugar, haemoglobin and cholesterol tests on a student of the Annotto Bay High School. Students of the school benefited from health tests recently, under the National Health Fund’s (NHF) School Wellness Programme.

NHF’s School Wellness Programme Saving Lives

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

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

12 years ago Health & Wellness

Four Additional Cases of Chikungunya Confirmed

The Ministry of Health has confirmed four additional cases of Chikungunya bringing the total number of confirmed cases for the country to twenty one (21). Of this number eighteen (18) are from local transmission, two (2) imported and one (1) considered cryptic due the uncertainty of whether the virus was contracted while traveling overseas or from a household contact. Director,...

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.

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Companies Urged to Encourage Men to Do Screening for Prostate Cancer

Companies are being urged to make screening for prostate cancer among male employees a calendar activity, and to schedule the exercise during September, observed as Prostate Cancer Awareness Month by the Jamaica Cancer Society. The call has come from Executive Director of the Jamaica Cancer Society, Yulit Gordon, who was addressing a JIS ‘Think Tank’, on August 26. Mrs. Gordon...

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.

12 years ago Health & Wellness

Consultation Before Proposed Alcohol Policy

The proposed alcohol policy will not be enacted without consultation with industry players, says Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson. “We will be consulting with various stakeholders, including the alcohol industry. We understand that this is a business, and we are really referring to the type of drinking that is detrimental to health and has negative consequences,” the Minister...

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...

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.

12 years ago Health & Wellness

UHWI Gets Fully Equipped Ambulance From Turkey

The University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) has received a fully equipped ambulance from the Government of Turkey. The unit was handed over recently, during a ceremony held on the grounds of the hospital. Honorary Consul of the Republic of Turkey to Jamaica, Hon. Arnold Foote, said he became aware of the need of the ambulance by the hospital,...

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...