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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...

Women with high-risk and complicated pregnancies, now have greater access to high quality treatment and care, at the High Dependency Unit at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI). Located in the hospital's Labour and Delivery Ward, the unit, which has been in operation for almost four months, was set up by the Friends of Labor and Delivery Limited...

Cabinet has approved the award of six contracts totalling $219,876,444 by the Health Corporation for the supply of medical sundry items for the country's health sector. This disclosure was made by Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special Projects, Hon. Daryl Vaz, at the July 28 post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House. The supply companies are Shanghai Import and...

Director of Environmental Health in the Ministry of Health, William Broughton, is reminding persons to remain vigilant to prevent a possible outbreak of dengue fever. Speaking with JIS News, Mr. Broughton said that community action will be integral to successfully preventing an outbreak of the virus in Jamaica and called for persons to become inspectors of their own environs in...

Minister of Health, Hon. Rudyard Spencer, has suggested that the country's Essential Public Health Functions (EPHF) should be appraised at set intervals of at least five years to ensure better health outcomes. Addressing the opening of a Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) workshop on the evaluation of the EPHF today (July 27), at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston,...

Director, Disease Prevention and Control at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Sonia Copeland, says that the Ministry is in a high state of preparedness to detect and treat Dengue Fever, should there be an outbreak. Her statement follows the reported increase in Dengue Fever cases in a number of Caribbean territories, which has prompted the Ministry of Health (MOH), with...

Donating blood may not be a popular habit for many persons, but for Medical Officer, South East Regional Health Authority, Dr. Yohance Rodriguez, he has felt the urge to give the "gift of life" since his high school days. Because of his age, he was not allowed to make his first donation until he was enrolled in Medical School, when...