The Bustamante Hospital for Children, in partnership with the Southeast Regional Health Authority (SERHA), will be launching its inaugural Child Safety public education campaign in May as part of activities to mark Child Month. This is to sensitise parents and caregivers about critical interventions that should be implemented to safeguard children three to 17 years of age against the ingestion...

The Jamaica Youth Advocacy Network (JYAN) has commended the Government, particularly the Ministries of Education and Youth, and Health and Wellness, for taking steps to address unhealthy eating in schools. Speaking at a recent JIS ‘Think Tank’, Policy and Advocacy Coordinator at the JYAN, Shereika Mills, said that “we all have to start taking steps to realise our Vision 2030...

After spending much of his earlier years in paediatricians’ offices, between the Bustamante Hospital for Children (BHC) and private medical centres for childhood asthma, Dr. Andrew Burton knew that he would become a paediatrician and set himself on a path to achieve his goal. The young Senior Registrar in the Paediatric Medicine Department at BHC tells JIS NEWS that his...

The Government has established a sports medicine rehabilitation programme, which will ensure that athletes have easier access to medical care and less costly services and equipment. The Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with local and overseas partners to advance the programme. Partners are the Montefiore University Hospital/Albert Einstein Medical School, a...

Food-borne diseases have threatened human health for centuries. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP), there is an alarming number of persons that are affected by foodborne diseases. It is estimated that one in six Americans (or 48 million people) gets sick, 128,000 are hospitalised, and 3,000 die of food-borne diseases each year. Countries have...

March 10, 2022, marked two years since Jamaica recorded its first case of the coronavirus (COVID-19) and one year since the country began administering the COVID-19 vaccine. Since then, steps have been taken to enhance the health sector, and make it better able to provide healthcare to those in need. The Government’s direct COVID-19 health intervention has, so far, cost...

Food and Nutrition, and Hospitality and Villa Services students at the Marcus Garvey Technical High School in St. Ann have been exposed to innovative ways of preparing meals without salt, in commemoration of Salt Awareness week. The initiative saw chefs from Sandals Ocho Rios visiting the institution on March 10 to demonstrate alternative approaches to meal preparation to help improve...

Former educator, Booker T. Washington, once said: “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” On examining the life of top Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) History Unit 2 student and St. Andrew High School for Girls past student, Melissa Blair, this statement...

Six schools in St. James and Hanover have benefited from a donation of much-needed educational supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE), valued at US $5,000, by three American teenagers. The supplies, which include hand sanitisers, masks, face shields, gloves, books, pencils, crayons, and other stationery supplies, were handed over to St. James Preparatory, Providence Basic, and Farm, Glendevon and Goodwill...