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A significant number of persons turned up at the Jamaica Information Service (JIS) yesterday (August 24) to participate in a blood drive staged by the agency, in partnership with the National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS). Blood Donor Organiser at the NBTS, Carol Williams emphasised that the drive was a good initiative and the amount of blood received would go a...

Friends of the Black River Hospital, a support group for the St. Elizabeth based institution, has installed new windows at the facility at a cost of $1.4 Million. At a handing over ceremony at the Hospital on Monday (August 23), Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Diana Brown, told the gathering that the work of the group, including installation of the windows,...

Minister of Health, Hon. Rudyard Spencer, says the Government is seeking to develop co-operation between training and health service institutions, in order to strengthen the capacity of the health workforce. "We are entering into formal arrangements with training institutions with the objective of ensuring that we are training the people that we need in the numbers that we need them,...

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...