The Issa Trust Foundation has raised US$417,000 from a benefit concert held in New York on November 12 to assist in building a paediatric clinic in St. Ann. The funds include a US$200,000 donation from international charity Direct Relief. The clinic will provide healthcare services for children and adolescents in St. Ann and surrounding parishes. Wife of the Prime Minister...

Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, has announced that the Ocho Rios Health Centre, in St. Ann, will be upgraded at a cost of $200 million. Speaking to health practitioners and other stakeholders at the St. Ann facility, on November 11, Dr. Tufton said that population growth, and the many, sometimes unexpected, challenges that come with...

Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. Hon. Christopher Tufton, is calling on the support of the nation’s children and young people in the thrust to promote health-seeking behaviours among Jamaicans, to prevent illnesses such as diabetes. In his message to mark Diabetes Awareness Month, which is being observed in November, Minister Tufton noted the importance of the voice of the...

Employers are being urged to establish an environment where workers are empowered to undertake service that makes a difference to the organisation and wider community. Making the call, Regional Director for the Southern Regional Health Authority (SRHA), Michael Bent, said that when leaders of a company foster a spirit of team-building and goodwill among staff, this transcends into “significant differences...

Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Wayne Robertson (right), hosted a meeting with Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Hon. Juliet Cuthbert Flynn (third right), and Under Secretary-General and Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme for HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Winifred Byanyima (second right), at the Office of the Prime Minister...

The Government’s Adopt-a-Clinic Programme has, so far, raised approximately $175 million to benefit 40 health centres islandwide. Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, made the disclosure while addressing a ceremony for the adoption of the Dr. Kenneth Baugh Health Centre in Point Hill, St. Catherine, on Wednesday (November 9). Dr. Tufton said the programme is growing...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness has signed contracts with five private health institutions in Kingston, to perform elective surgeries and provide recovery spaces for public sector patients. This is being facilitated under the Public-Private Partnership component of the project CODE CARE initiative. The institutions are the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), Andrews Memorial Hospital, Heart Institute of...