Underneath the management of the Nationwide Healthcare Enhancement Basis (NHEF), Jamaica’s Undertake-A-Clinic Programme continues to reshape neighborhood healthcare, this time delivering a significant win for the Kenneth Commonplace Well being Centre, because of the unwavering help of the Jamaican diaspora.
The ability will obtain a JMD$3 million improve, funded via proceeds from the sixth annual Jamaica Hi‑5K Walk/Run—an occasion hosted on Could 10 at Miramar Regional Park and spearheaded by the Jamaica Hi5 Basis in partnership with the Consulate Basic of Jamaica in Miami. Greater than 2,000 contributors turned out in help, exhibiting the facility of collective affect from the Jamaican neighborhood overseas.
Based on the Ministry of Well being & Wellness, the donation will go towards important tools and upgrades, together with an autoclave for sterilization, an examination desk, digital scales and a fetal doppler, air con models, and workplace objects comparable to a wise TV and furnishings.
The Undertake-A-Clinic initiative faucets into the philanthropic energy of Jamaica’s personal sector and diaspora to remodel main well being care. Since launching in 2017, the programme has secured commitments totaling roughly $200 million for the rehabilitation of over 47 well being centres throughout the island. Final 12 months, the Ministry signaled plans for an additional 50 clinics to profit.
In remarks delivered final month, Well being Minister Dr. Christopher Tufton emphasised the programme’s community-centered strategy. “The Undertake-A-Clinic Programme is essentially about recognising the significance of main healthcare and neighborhood involvement,” Tufton stated. “By encouraging native organisations, teams, and people to help our clinics, we’re creating a way of possession and pleasure that makes these amenities more practical and reliable.”
The Minister identified that the well being centres function the “bedrock of excellent well being”.
“Our purpose is to revive the credibility and capability of those clinics, our first line of defence, by investing in infrastructure, staffing, and neighborhood engagement. The well being centres are essential in offering preventive, healing, and referral providers, particularly in rural areas the place entry has traditionally been a problem,” he stated.
With efforts just like the Jamaica Hello‑5K Stroll/Run and powerful engagement from the diaspora, the Undertake-A-Clinic Programme is steadily constructing a more healthy, extra linked Jamaica—one clinic at a time.
