Infrastructure Projects
• Work continued on the $3.5 billion renovation at the Cornwall Regional Hospital in St. James.
• The Accident and Emergency (A&E) Department at the Princess Margaret Hospital in St. Thomas was officially reopened following an extensive rehabilitation and expansion exercise.
• New elevators were installed at Princess Margaret, Spanish Town, and Victoria Jubilee Hospitals. Approxi-mately $200 million is being spent to install 14 new elevators at hospitals in the South East Regional Health Authority.
• Ground was broken for the building of the Western Children and Adolescent Hospital, a gift from the People’s Republic of China.
• The Stony Hill Health Centre in St. Andrew was renovated, expanded and equipped at a cost of $80 million.
• Black River Health Centre in St. Elizabeth was expanded and upgraded at a cost of $13 million under the Reducing Waiting Time Initiative.
Adopt-A-Clinic Programme
• 19 clinics have been adopted.
• The donor commitments for the clinics total $57.4 million over a three-year period, which is $19.1 million per year.
Cancer Care
• University Hospital of the West Indies opened a $78 million Mammography Unit.
Tackling the Dengue Virus
• The Enhanced Vector Control Programme was launched.
• $1 billion earmarked to support enhanced measures to contain the spread of the dengue virus.
• Of the sum, $469.9 million went towards procurement of 31 mounted fogging machines; 35 fogging vehicles; ultra-low volume flushing solutions; 25 handheld fogging machines; 150 cases of Natular tablets for water treatment; and continuing the engagement of 1,000 vector workers into March 2020.
• Approximately $302.5 million was spent for solid waste removal, and $227.5 million for sensitisation.
• New vehicles were acquired to enhance vector control
• Communities, schools, and drains were inspected and fogged.
• Some 6,000 notices were served on persons failing to destroy mosquito breeding sites on their properties
Training of Nurses
• Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed with the Government of the United Kingdom to train 13 critical care nurses, beginning June 2019.