As Jamaica prepares for the Zika virus (ZikV), Director of Health Promotion and Protection in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Sonia Copeland, is urging people living with non-communicable diseases (NCDs)...

The Government will be contracting the services of retired public health inspectors to help eradicate mosquito breeding sites across the country. The move comes as preparations for the Zika Virus...

Bed capacity at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) has been increased by 28, following the official opening of the $59 million expanded William Ward, today (January 27). Improvement work  has...

Two fetal heart rate machines that doctors use to monitor late pregnancy and labour, were presented to the Cornwall Regional Hospital, in Montego Bay, on January 26. “These monitors are...

Minister of Health, Hon. Horace Dalley said the Government will be expanding bed space at four hospitals during the current financial year. These are Kingston Public Hospital (KHP), Spanish Town,...

The St. Catherine Parish Council is undertaking intensive clean-up activities in Spanish Town and surrounding communities, as part of its vector control and awareness programme, in preparation for the Zika...

Mayor of Kingston, Senator Councillor, Dr.  Angela Brown Burke, says the  Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC) is pleased to partner with Caribbean Cement Company Limited and the Ministry of...

The National Family Planning Board (NFPB)  is to step up its  public education in guiding persons as to how they can delay pregnancy and on contraceptive options. This is crucial,...