The Jamaica Midlife Health Society (JMHS) will be hosting a virtual symposium on Sunday (March 26), focusing on the topic ‘Prostate Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease: Preventing the Double-Death-Dash’. The event will be held from 1pm to 5pm, and persons wishing to participate are invited to register at mhs.official@gmail.com. Presenters for the event include Consultant Urologist, Dr. Tasha Cooke, who will...

More than 120,000 Jamaicans have received life-saving treatment and care under the Government’s Enhancing Healthcare Services Delivery Project, at a cost of $3 billion. Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, said that through the public-private partnership (PPP) arrangement, which was instituted in September 2019, persons benefit from diagnostic services such as computerised tomography (CT) scans, Magnetic...

Seventy-eight retirees were honoured by the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) at its annual retirement luncheon, held at the Montego Bay Convention Centre, St. James, on March 16. Guest Speaker and former Director of Human Resources, Coleen Ricketts-Evans, told the retirees not to look at life as an end-of-the road ordeal but rather to take pride in the rich legacies...

The St. Thomas Health Services is urging residents of the parish to be vigilant in preventing the breeding of mosquitoes, to decrease the likelihood of persons contracting dengue fever as they store water for household use. In an interview with JIS News, Medical Officer of Health for the parish, Dr. D’Oyen Smith, explained that many residents try to have a...

With three confirmed cases of viral conjunctivitis (pink eye) in Westmoreland, the parish’s health department is urging residents to take precaution to prevent an outbreak. Surveillance data shows that the three cases were confirmed in the Negril health district and was detected in three children ages two, three and five. Health Promotion and Education Officer for the parish, Gerald Miller,...

Persons experiencing stress, anxiety and other mental health challenges now have another avenue to access support within their communities through the Ministry of Health and Wellness’ Problem Management Plus (PM+). The programme engages faith-based and community leaders to assist people to cope with distress resulting from death of family/friends, financial loss, experience with violence, natural disasters, among other adversities. Delivering...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness has received sanitisation and personal protective equipment, valued more than $8.6 million, from the Jamaica Red Cross. The items include 16 sanitiser stations for distribution across the regional health authorities, more than 13,000 surgical gowns, and 6,000 face shields along with facial masks. The provision was facilitated through the International Federation of the Red...