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The Jamaica Information Service (JIS) has partnered with the National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS), commonly known as the Blood Bank, to host a blood drive on Tuesday, August 24. The blood drive will take place at the JIS' Head Office, 58a Half-Way Tree Road, Kingston 10 (Corner of Chelsea Avenue), from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Blood Donor Organiser at...

Global Links, a United States based charitable organisation out of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, has donated over US$7 million in medical equipment to hospitals in Jamaica since 1989, to assist in improving healthcare delivery. Chairman of Global Links Board of Directors, Dr. Margaret Larkins-Pettigrew. According to Chairman of Global Links Board of Directors, Dr. Margaret Larkins-Pettigrew, some of the island's hospitals that...

The public has been advised that there will be no collection of blood at the Slipe Pen Road Blood Bank in Kingston on Friday, August 20. The closure is to facilitate training for the staff. Persons wishing to donate blood should visit the Kiwanis Blood Collection Centre on the grounds of the National Chest Hospital on Barbican Road, or the...

With a little more than two weeks to go before the start of the new academic year, Chief Medical Officer in the Ministry of Health, Sheila Campbell Forrester, is reminding parents to ensure that their children are fully immunised. Speaking on Wednesday (August 18) at the official launch of the Child Health and Development Passport (CHDP), Dr. Forrester said parents...

Health Minister, Hon. Rudyard Spencer, says the new Child Health and Development Passport (CHDP), will enable Jamaica to further improve its infant and child mortality rates, in keeping with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for the year 2015. Speaking at the official launch of the CHDP, today (August 18), at the St. Catherine Health Department, Mr. Spencer said the health...

Ordinary Jamaicans can now have access to high quality, affordable air ambulance service from Medserv Jamaica Limited, through its JamaicaMed brand. The ambulance service, dubbed PatientFirst Jamaica, incorporates an international emergency support service for pre-approved access to air ambulance services, and pre-approved admission to select international hospitals. A member-based programme, providing services to members anywhere in the world, it was...

Minister of Health, Hon. Rudyard Spencer, was today (August 12) presented with the first copy of the new Child Health and Development Passport, ahead of its official launch on August 18. The health passport, which forms an integral part of the country's National Strategic Health Plan, is slated for implementation on September 1. The project is being carried out in...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has received a donation of US$300,000 from the Government of India for the Bustamante Hospital for Children. The presentation was made by the High Commissioner for India, His Excellency Mohinder Singh Grover. Accepting the donation at Jamaica House on Wednesday, August 11, Mr. Golding noted that the funding will go a far way towards enabling the...

Coordinator of the Jamaica/Cuba Eyecare Programe, Gregory Thomas, has described as overwhelming the response of persons to eye screening sessions held in Kingston, Westmoreland, St. Elizabeth, St. James and Portland in July. Speaking with JIS News, Mr. Thomas reported that over 1,000 persons were screened for cataracts, pterygium and diabetic retinopathy - the three conditions for screening is being done...

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, the Hon. Dr. Christopher Tufton, met Thursday August 5 with Ontario's Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Hon. Carol Mitchell, to discuss topics of mutual interest. The meeting, which took place at the Ontario Minister's offices in downtown Toronto, Canada, was also attended by Jamaica's Consul General to Toronto, George Ramocan, as well as...

A total of 117 student nurses from the Cornwall School of Nursing and the Kingston School of Nursing, graduated from the institutions recently (Thursday July 29), after successfully completing the training requirements in general nursing, basic midwifery and post basic midwifery. The first joint graduation ceremony, attended by hundreds of persons from across Jamaica, was held at the Kings Seventh-Day...

Minister of Health Minister, Hon. Rudyard Spencer, is urging the public to co-operate with Ministry's health workers involved in vector control and other activities associated with the elimination of Dengue Fever. Minister of Health, the Hon Rudyard Spencer, speaking at Tuesday's (August 3) press briefing on Dengue hosted by his Ministry at Jamaica House. He said that particularly important was...