WASHINGTON, DC – Jamaica’s Undertake-a-Clinic Programme is gaining traction, with notable enter from the Diaspora in the US, members of which have taken a number of well being clinics In Jamaica underneath their wings.
Throughout a latest go to to Washington, D.C., Well being and Wellness Minister Dr. Christopher Tufton spoke on the Embassy. He shared that Jamaica has 325 clinics, with 116 of them accessible for adoption.
Dr. Tufton spoke to members of the diaspora. This included folks on the net discussion board Let’s Join with Ambassador Marks. He expressed his happiness with the help for this system. He appreciated each diaspora organizations and people who’ve joined to assist our main well being care companies.
Advantage of Giving Again
“The intention of the Undertake-a-clinic Programme is to get Jamaicans at residence and overseas, who’ve benefitted from our main well being care companies, to present again,” Tufton declared. “As Minister of Well being, I’m asking members of the Diaspora to hitch fingers and hearts with the Ministry by adopting a clinic.”
Launched by the well being and wellness ministry in November 2017, the Adopt-a-Clinic Programme targets well being centres throughout the island for help from native and worldwide people, teams, and company entities.
Fifty 5 clinics are actually absolutely adopted – 34 taken on up to now by Jamaicans and organisations in the Diaspora in the US which have spent some US$0.5 million to assist improve and supply necessary items of kit for these main care establishments, Dr Tufton defined.
A breakdown of the help reveals the Diaspora within the Northeast USA adopted 6 of the Well being Clinics In Jamaica, which totaled US$133,078 in contributions, whereas the Southern USA adopted 16 facilities, amounting to US$341,000.
Golden Spring Well being Centre
At an occasion on the Jamaica Embassy, Dr. Jacqueline Watson gave the well being minister a verify for US$10,000. This cash is for the Golden Spring Well being Centre in Crimson Hills, St Andrew. It’s the second fee to this clinic. The Watson household helps this clinic in reminiscence of their late dad and mom, Keith and Phyllis Watson.
Different adopted well being clinics In Jamaica embrace these at Cascade in Hanover, Adelphi in St. James, Steer City in St. Ann, Ulster Spring in Trelawny, Islington in St. Mary, and Lambs River Clinic in Westmoreland.
The well being and wellness minister paid tribute to the diaspora members for the function they proceed to play within the well being sector in Jamaica. “You, the members of the Diaspora, have performed a job in serving to us offering well-needed gear and provides to our hospitals and well being facilities.”
Jamaica’s Ambassador to the US, Audrey P. Marks additionally lauded the members of the Diaspora for his or her help and adoption of the nation’s well being care services.
Main well being care in Jamaica is offered via over 320 group well being facilities. These facilities are positioned within the nation’s 14 parishes. Most of those services have been constructed within the Nineteen Seventies.
The island has earned international World Well being Group recognition for its greatest practices in main well being are.
