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Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon Christopher Tufton (centre), engages in a light moment with Clinical Coordinator at the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), Dr. Delroy Fray (left) and Hospiten Country Manager, Samuel Afonso Diaz, at a contract signing ceremony at the WRHA’s Regional Technical Office, in Montego Bay on Friday (September 16). Contracts were signed between the Ministry and four private healthcare providers in St. James to perform elective surgeries that have been delayed in the public health system due to the coronavirus (COVID-19).

200 Patients in Western Jamaica to Receive Surgeries Under ‘CODE CARE’

By: Nickieta Sterling, September 18, 2022

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...

Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (left) engages in discussion with (from second left) United States Ambassador to Jamaica, Nick Perry; Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Jamaica’s Health Emergencies Advisor, Dr. Marion Bullock DuCasse; Acting Country Representative for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Alex Gainer, and PAHO/ World Health Organization (WHO), Representative to Jamaica, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands, Ian Stein. Occasion was the hand over of vehicles and equipment, valued at US$540,000, by the USAID and PAHO/WHO to further strengthen the country’s response to COVID-19. The presentation took place at the PAHO/ WHO country office in Jamaica, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, St. Andrew on September 16.

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Community Health Aide at the St. Elizabeth Health Department, Tracia Wright, hands out Monkeypox flyers in the town of Santa Cruz on Tuesday (September 13), as part of a sensitisation campaign.

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Regional Director for the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Dr. Richard N. Amenyah (second left), and Director of Health Connect Jamaica (HCJ), Geoffrey Barrow (fifth right), share a moment with key stakeholders at the HCJ’s inaugural dinner and awards banquet held recently at the AC Marriott Hotel in New Kingston.

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Minister of Transport and Mining, Hon. Audley Shaw (second left), looks on as Senior Medical Officer, Spanish Town Hospital, Dr. Jacqueline Wright James
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South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) Chairman, Wentworth Charles (third right), views one of the 10 refurbished hemodialysis machines valued over $28 million, that have bene donated to the Spanish Town Hospital by the Florida-based Renal Dynamics. Occasion was a ceremony at the hospital in St. Catherine, to hand over the machines on Monday (September 12). Others (from left) are the hospital’s Chief Executive Officer, Jacqueline Ellis; Director of Nursing, Novelette Robinson; Technical Services Manager, Renal Dynamics, Chris Davenport; Regional Director, SERHA, Errol Greene; Senior Medical Officer (SMO) at the hospital, Dr. Jacqueline Wright-James (partly hidden), and Acting Nursing Manager at the Dialysis Unit, Kaindece Barrett.

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Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) Risk Factor Programme Development Officer in the NCD and Injury Prevention Unit in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Dr. Cathi-Ann Williams.

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