WASHINGTON, DC – Jamaica and Guyana have called for the digitalization of the health sector in the Americas as the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IBD) celebrated five years of collaboration in information systems and digital health.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Ministry of Health in Jamaica is monitoring the uptick in COVID-19 cases and continues to urge persons, particularly the most vulnerable, to take the necessary precautions.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Trinidad and Tobago has recorded its first case of the Monkeypox virus with health authorities here saying the patient is a middle-aged man with a history of international travel.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) says it has successfully treated a baby who was born with an abnormal spine, leading to the emergence of a tail.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana has called on Canada to establish a facility here that would train nurses for the region as well as the North American country as the Caribbean generally faces a serious shortage of health care workers as a result of migration.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Some of the island’s popular social media influencers have joined forces with the Ministry of Health and Wellness to support its Expanded Program on Immunization, in an effort to increase the uptake of routine childhood immunizations.
PARIS – Caribbean countries are likely to benefit from a new initiative launched in Paris aimed at investing in and strengthening essential, climate and crisis-resilient primary health care (PHC) services in low- and low-and-middle income countries (LICs, LMICs).
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – President Dr. Irfaan Ali has lauded the country’s health sector that is now showing substantial improvements based on data for some key indicators.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) has denied allegations that “a higher than usual number of dialysis patients have died in recent days” as a result of several non-working dialysis machines.
BELMOPAN, Belize – Belize has launched the State of the World’s Children 2023 under the theme “For Every Child, Vaccination” and has received cold chain equipment from UNICEF Belize to strengthen primary health care in the country.
After an absence of three years, the New Jersey based Help Jamaica Medical Mission, is scheduled to return to Jamaica from the 6th to the 14th of September and will serve some seven communities in Kingston, St. Thomas, and St. Catherine.
WASHINGTON, DC – The Executive Committee of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) began its 172nd session Monday examining resolutions, strategies and policies that will be presented to PAHO’s 60th Directing Council in September, with the aim of improving the health of the population of the Americas.
Washington, DC – The World Health Organization (WHO) has certified Belize as malaria-free, following the country’s over 70 years of continued efforts to stamp out the disease.
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