Some $5 million has been allocated by the Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI) to carry out refurbishing work at the Broadleaf Health Centre in Manchester. Approximately 5000 residents of the community and surrounding areas are expected to benefit from the project, which is expected to start in October and end before Christmas. The improvement works will facilitate the reopening of the...

Citizens are being encouraged to participate in the Jamaica Children and Youth Health and Well-being Survey (CHEWS-JA), which is currently being conducted across the island. The survey, which began late August is expected to be completed by November 2022. It aims to collect information on the health, educational, and life experiences of young people ages 13-24 years. The CHEWS-JA is...

Student Nurse, Kenesha Simms (centre), holds a package containing medical supplies donated to member institutions of the Council of Community Colleges of Jamaica (CCCJ), during a ceremony at Excelsior Community College in Kingston on Tuesday (September 20). She is joined by (from left) Director of Citizen Security, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Jamaica, Gerald Fontain; Executive Director, CCCJ,...

Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, is imploring school leaders to follow the Interim Guidelines for Beverages in Schools. The guidelines serve to reduce students’ exposure to and consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, including fruit drinks, energy drinks and sweetened water. Effective January 1, 2019, the guidelines prohibited sugar-sweetened beverages with a total sugar concentration exceeding a...

Health researchers are being urged to use the experience of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic to recommit to studies aimed at strengthening public health delivery across the region. Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, made the call as he addressed the opening of the Caribbean Public Health Agency’s (CARPHA) 66th annual Health Research Conference on Thursday (September...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness has signed contracts with four private health facilities in St. James to perform elective surgeries that have been delayed in the public health system due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic priorities. The contracts, totaling approximately $70 million, will see some 200 patients receiving hernia, prostate and hysterectomy surgeries by the end of 2022. Hospiten,...

Jamaica has received a donation of vehicles and vital pieces of equipment, valued at US$540,000, to further strengthen the country’s response to COVID-19. The items, provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Pan American Health Organization/ World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), include a 30-seater mobile vaccination unit, a 16-seater corresponding vehicle for field vaccination teams, a...