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(FILE) Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton.
(FILE) Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton.

Jamaica Records Two Additional Cases of Monkeypox

By: Latonya Linton, September 7, 2022
Jamaica has recorded two additional cases of monkey pox, bringing the total to nine. Both cases, which are locally transmitted, emanated from the parishes of St. Elizabeth and St. James....
Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr the Hon. Christopher Tufton (right), listens as architect, Garfield Wood (second right), highlights features on the replica of the new main building to be constructed at the Spanish Town Hospital in St. Catherine. Looking on (from left) are Acting Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Country Representative for Jamaica, Lorenzo Escondeur, and Head of the European Union Delegation to Jamaica, Belize, The Bahamas, and the Turks and Caicos Islands, Ambassador Marianne van Steen. They were attending a recent Open House and Exhibition ceremony for the rehabilitation of Public Health Facilities in St. Catherine, at the Open Bible Church in Twickenham Park, St. Catherine.

New Main Building to be Constructed at Spanish Town Hospital

By: Chanel Spence, September 6, 2022
Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton.

Minister Calls on Women to Encourage Men to Screen for Prostate Cancer

By: Peta- Gay Hodges, September 5, 2022

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