Major health-care initiatives for 2024
Prime Minister Andrew Holness says major health-care initiatives are on track, to be implemented in 2024.
Holness said the digitisation of the health information systems has started, noting that the May Pen Hospital in Clarendon will be the first facility to go live on the digital health information platform.
The prime minister provided an update on the initiatives during his 2024 New Year’s Day message.
Holness also informed that ground will be broken for the major expansion and refurbishing of the Spanish Town Hospital. The facility, when completed, will improve health care to the people of St Catherine.
“We will go to procurement to build the most advanced primary care clinics in Portmore and Old Harbour,” the prime minister said.
Furthermore, he stated that the rehabilitation of the Cornwall Regional Hospital is now close to completion and will significantly improve health care in the north-western region of Jamaica, particularly when the adjoining Western Children and Adolescent Hospital is complete.
“The challenge to repair the Cornwall Regional Hospital tells the story of Jamaican infrastructure. The Cornwall Regional Hospital was built over 50 years ago but did not undergo any major maintenance programme since this Administration decided to rehabilitate the building, to extend its useful life,” Holness noted.
Meanwhile, the prime minister informed that all ministries, departments, and agencies have transformational projects in development, currently being executed or about to be implemented.
He pointed out that early this year, ground will be broken for the Resilience Park in Portmore, St Catherine.
“This will be a major investment in recreational and urban environmental public space, equivalent to Emancipation Park in Kingston and Harmony Park in Montego Bay,” he said.
