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Team At BHC Lauded For Labour Day Surgeries Initiative
Eighteen patients at the Bustamante Hospital for Children (BHC) on Labour Day benefitted from well-needed surgeries which had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The surgeries were performed as part of an effort by the hospital to reduce the...
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Labour Day Project To Help Children’s Hospital Reduce Surgeries Backlog
Twenty children, aged four to 12, will benefit from free surgical procedures at the Bustamante Hospital for Children on Labour Day. The day, which is celebrated each year on May 23, encourages national volunteerism and collective acts of service that reflect the industrious and caring nature of the Jamaican people. This year’s Labour Day theme is “Re-igniting a Nation for...
Mandeville Hospital Receives Urology Equipment Absent in Many Hospitals
Urology patients at the Mandeville Regional Hospital (MRH) in Manchester are to benefit from the use of a resectoscope, used in prostate and bladder surgeries, and valued at J $1.1 million. The equipment and its accessories will be used for most of the endoscopic surgeries performed in the urology department. Urology is the branch of medicine that focuses on the...
Jamaica In Dialogue To Procure COVID-19 Vaccines For Children
Jamaica is in dialogue with several countries to acquire coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines for children aged five to 11 years. Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie, made the disclosure during the Ministry’s COVID Conversations virtual press conference on May 18. “We have good indication from both the United Kingdom and Spain that we will be able to get vaccines for five...