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Chairman of Fathers Incorporated, Dr. Herbert Gayle, addressing a JIS ‘Think Tank’ on June 12, on the topic: ‘Daddy Matters,’ and highlighting the impact of resident fathers on the home and society.

Increase in Couple Families

Since Independence, the number of couple families - two people living together in a marriage or common law relationship with a child - has increased from 20 per cent to 42 per cent. This was disclosed by Fathers Incorporated Chairman,...

Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister with Responsibility for Primary Health Care Infrastructure, Hon. Luther Buchanan (centre) sharing a comic moment with these nurses as he examines a piece of medical equipment during an official handing over ceremony for medical equipment purchased by Sandals Foundation for the St. Ann — Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister with Responsibility for Primary Health Care Infrastructure, Hon. Luther Buchanan (centre) sharing a comic moment with these nurses as he examines a piece of medical equipment during an official handing over ceremony for medical equipment purchased by Sandals Foundation for the St. Ann's Bay Hospital at a cost of $1.14 million. The ceremony was held at the Hospital this morning (June 11).

Sandals Foundation Donates Equipment to St. Ann’s Bay Hospital

Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson, addressing the launch of a $389 million sewage treatment project to improve systems at six health facilities across the island, with a technology developed by the Scientific Research Council (SRC). The launch was held on Friday, June 6, at the Percy Junor Hospital, in Clarendon. Others pictured are (from left): Chief Executive Officer of the Hospital, Earl McLaughlin; board member of the SRC, Bevon Morrison; Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, Hon. Phillip Paulwell; and Chairman of the National Health Fund (NHF), Sterling Soares.

MOH and SRC Partner on Sewage Treatment Project

Minister of Health Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson (second left); receives medical supplies valued at $67.5 million from American Gospel Recording Artiste and Senior Pastor of Perfecting Faith Church (PFC), Freeport, New York, Pastor Donnie McClurkin (left); while PFC Associate Pastor, Lois Mellini (second right); and Pastor of Fellowship Tabernacle, Rev. Al Miller look on. Occasion was a ceremony at the Courtleigh Hotel in Kingston on Monday (June 2), during which the supplies were handed over.

Donnie McClurkin Donates Medical Supplies

Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson (centre) seated with Dr Khine Naung (left) and her husband and co-investor, Dr Soe Naung during the official opening ceremony for the Soe Htwe Medicare Centre in Montego Bay, St. James, on Sunday, June 1. Dr. Ferguson was the main speaker at the event. The two storey medical facility located on Montego Bay’s ‘hip strip’, consists of medical offices and a pharmacy, and represents a US$2 million investment from the Burmese-Jamaican, family physicians Drs. Soe Naung, and Khine Naung.

Montego Bay Welcomes Multi-Million Dollar Medical Facility

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12 years ago Health & Wellness

Golden Age Home to Stage Reggae Concert June 13

The Golden Age Home will host its first reggae concert this year, as it seeks to raise millions towards the construction of a health and wellness centre on its property at Vineyard Town in Kingston. General Manager of the facility, Laurette Adams-Thomas, told JIS News that the concert will be held on Friday, June 13 at the Ranny Williams Entertainment...

12 years ago Health & Wellness

Government Aggressively Pursuing Fight to Reduce NCDs

Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson says the Government will continue to implement key strategies that will ultimately result in a 25 per cent reduction in Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) by 2025. “We intend to do everything in our power to meet that target,” the Minister said, while speaking at the re-opening of the Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ) House,...

12 years ago Health & Wellness

Government Unrelenting in Anti-Smoking Campaign

Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson says the Government remains unrelenting in its efforts to make Jamaica a smoke free country, even as it amends the anti-tobacco legislation. “I am very strident, my team is strident, because we know that controlling tobacco smoke in public space is good for Jamaica and we will not ease up. The regulations, while...

12 years ago Health & Wellness

Government to Procure Radiation Treatment Machine

The Government will be acquiring two state of the art linear accelerators, which will eliminate the cost of radiation treatment for some types of breast cancer. This treatment now costs an average of $200,000 per dose, with patients needing between 17 and 18 doses of radiation. “This is over $3 million,” Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson stressed, while...

Minister of Health, the Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson. (FILE)

12 years ago Health & Wellness

IMF Considerations Key in Health Sector Salary Talks – Dr. Ferguson

Health Minister, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson, says future negotiations between the Government and public sector health workers must be done against the background of Jamaica’s obligations to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Addressing delegates at the recent annual general meeting of the Public Health Nurses Special Interest Group held at the Jewel Resort, Runaway Bay, St. Ann, Dr. Ferguson said Jamaica...

Volunteer at the National Council on Drug Abuse, Gail Van-Reid (right), educates students from Long Road Primary School, Kwesi-Ann Wallen (left) and Janell Harrison on the hazards of smoking. They were at the National Schools ‘No Tobacco’ Poster and DJ competition, held at the St. Peter and Paul Church Hall on May 30.

12 years ago Health & Wellness

National Support for Reduced Tobacco Use Encouraged

The nation is, again, being encouraged to support the Government’s campaign aimed at attaining a tobacco-free environment for Jamaica, and acknowledge the progress made, thus far, to this end. In his message marking Saturday’s (May 31) commemorating of World No Tobacco Day, Health Minister, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson, said he is “legally and morally bound” to continue enacting legislation, targeting...

Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson (centre) practises CPR as students from Negril All Age look on. Giving instructions are (from left): Health Educator/CPR instructor, Heart Foundation of Jamaica, Zayne-Ann Parkes and Senior CPR Instructor, Marco Broomfield (second left). Occasion was the National Schools ‘No Tobacco’ Poster and DJ competition, held at the St. Peter and Paul Church Hall on May 30, under the theme: ‘Smoke Free Public Spaces: It’s Your Right, Protect It’.

12 years ago Health & Wellness

Benefits from Tobacco Regulations

Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson, says the country is already seeing the benefits of the promulgation of the tobacco Regulations under the Jamaica Public Health Act. “Jamaica is better for that decision. Already, we have seen in our public health clinics and hospitals reductions in admissions for certain kinds of diseases or patients who would normally have been...