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The Legal Medicine Unit is now conducting autopsies on all week days (Mondays - Fridays), according to a release from the Ministry of National Security, issued on Wednesday (March 17). Conducting daily autopsies is part of efforts to make the operations of the Unit more efficient, and reduce the backlog of cases. Previously, autopsies were done two or three days...

Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Senator Aundre Franklin, is in Brazil attending the five-day Second Latin-American Conference on Sanitation being held in Foz Do Iguacu, March 14 to 18. Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Senator Aundre Franklin The theme of the conference is, "Universal Sustainability of Sanitation". It will focus on the challenges of efficiency in...

The Ministry of Health is committed to the improvement of the health of Jamaicans, as part of its obligations under the Millennium Development Goals and Vision 2030, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Dr. Jean Dixon, has said. "This is why the Government saw it necessary to open up access to health care to the entire population," she said, adding that...

The Bureau of Women's Affairs has lamented that women continue to be the group most affected by HIV/AIDS, whether directly or indirectly. At a forum Monday (March 8), at the Jamaica Conference Centre, downtown Kingston, the Bureau and the United Nations' Country Team in Jamaica brought together a wide cross-section of women to discuss the topic, 'The Status of Women:...

Minister of Health, Hon. Rudyard Spencer, is to meet with representatives of the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, to discuss concerns expressed by the Joint Health Sector Group at a meeting with him on Tuesday (March 9). Mr. Spencer said that it was important that the Ministry of Health and the groups in the health sector are on...

Minister of Health, Hon. Rudyard Spencer, officially opened a new Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and a Chemotherapy Suite at the Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay. The two essential units are described as providing major boosts to healthcare delivery in Western Jamaica, as well as providing excellent back-up facilities to the wide array of specialist service delivery areas, including the...

Health Minister, Hon. Rudyard Spencer, has urged international organizations to exert their influence in finding an urgent solution to the chronic problem of migration in the health sector to curtail the effects on developing countries. "It is urgent that the epistemic community, and organisations such as the World Bank, the World Health Organisation and the United Nations, raise their collective...

A 14-day injunction to prevent further industrial action by Registered Nurses, represented by the Nurses Association of Jamaica (NAJ), was secured by Minister of Labour and Social Security, the Hon. Pearnel Charles, in the Supreme Court on Wednesday (March 3). There have been reports since Monday that the Nurses have been involved in a "sick out", in support of the...

A public education campaign, which aims to stop cigarette smoking within the designated area of Emancipation Square, in Spanish Town, St. Catherine, will begin this week. The campaign will be spearheaded by the Smoke Free Action Coalition, in collaboration with the St. Catherine Parish Council. Emancipation Square was recently declared a smoke free zone by Mayor of Spanish Town, Dr....

The May Pen Hospital has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the National Youth Service (NYS) and Entertainment Surgery, to film a Youth Mentoring project, that will be used to help steer young people from deviant behaviours and to channel their energies into creative endeavours. The project will engage young persons 13 to 17 years of age, living in...

Measures will be put in place to improve security at the May Pen Hospital, including erecting perimeter fencing. Minister of Health, Hon. Rudyard Spencer, addressing a meeting with staff of the Clarendon-based facility last week, expressed dissatisfaction with the existing arrangements to ensure the safety of staff and patients. He informed that a tender will be put out for a...

The Rotary Club of Santa Cruz, in St. Elizabeth, handed over an ambulance to the Jamaica Red Cross Society in the parish, on February 23, to boost its response to medical emergencies in the parish. At the handing over ceremony, held at the St. Matthew's Anglican Church, in Santa Cruz, Custos of the parish, Hon. Alfred Farquharson, said the unit...