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The newly erected entrance at the Black River Hospital in St. Elizabeth, which was constructed at a cost of approximately $20 million by the Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI) under its Bauxite Community Development Programme (BCDP).
The newly erected entrance at the Black River Hospital in St. Elizabeth, which was constructed at a cost of approximately $20 million by the Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI) under its Bauxite Community Development Programme (BCDP).

Black River Hospital Gets New Entrance

By: Nickieta Sterling, February 13, 2023
Service delivery at the Black River Hospital in St Elizabeth has been boosted, with the official commissioning of a newly erected entrance and perimeter wall at the health facility on...
Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (right) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Acting Country Representative, Vicente Teran (second right), observe as Chief Education Officer (Acting), Ministry of Education and Youth, Dr. Kasan Troupe (centre), interacts with students from Maverley Primary and Infant School, at the Heart Foundation of Jamaica’s launch of a media campaign to support Phase 1 of the School Nutrition Policy, held at the Spanish Court Hotel in Kingston on Thursday (February 9). The students (from left) are Prince McLeish, Kishanna Williams, Dejaun Russell and Jovier Stennette. In the background (from left) are: President, Paediatric Association of Jamaica, Dr. Natalie McNeil Beecher; State Minister, Ministry of Health and Wellness, Hon. Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn and Executive Director, Heart Foundation of Jamaica, Deborah Chen.

Heart Foundation Launches Media Campaign to Support School Nutrition Policy

By: Chanel Spence, February 10, 2023
Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (right), in discussion with Consultant Nephrologist at the Spanish Town Hospital in St. Catherine, Dr. Roger Smith (centre), while visiting the facility’s dialysis unit on Wednesday (February 8) to examine 10 new dialysis machines and furniture, which the institution received recently under a $30-million investment. Looking on is the hospital’s Senior Medical Officer, Dr. Jacqueline Wright-James.

Jamaicans Urged to Adopt Healthy Lifestyles to Prevent Renal Failure

By: Garfield L. Angus, February 9, 2023

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Assistant Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Jarbas Barbosa. (Photo © PAHO/WHO)
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