Health insured will still pay - Thousands to be billed under free-care regime
CLOSE TO to half a million Jamaicans with health insurance can still expect to pay indirectly for services and items in public health facilities from which user fees are to be removed come Tuesday. Speaking with The Gleaner yesterday, Minister of Health Rudyard Spencer says ...
Office of the PM hoarding power - PNP
THE OPPOSITION People's National Party (PNP) is questioning Prime Minister Bruce Golding's alleged transfer of the Lands and Environment portfolios to his office, without the knowledge of two of his ministers. Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller raised the issue...
Hospitals not ready - experts - Resources inadequate for patient numbers - Nurses, doctors set to bear brunt of burden
WITH LESS than 24 hours before user fees are abolished in all public facilities across the island, except the University Hospital of the West Indies, at least one health-care group is contending that all is not in place to facilitate the new regime....
... But KPH chief says good to go
Kingston Public Hospital (KPH), the major referral health institution in Jamaica, is ready to deal with the anticipated increase in patients when user fees are abolished from all public health facilities tomorrow, according to Donald Farquharson, chief executive officer...
Clinics concerned staff won't cope with numbers
With the abolition of user fees to commence April 1, health-care personnel at clinics have expressed concern that adequate plans were not in place to handle the expected increase in patients. The Gleaner visited two clinics in Kingston, Comprehensive Health Centre on Slipe Pen Road ...
Government of Jamaica moves to catch cheats
MINISTER OF Health Rudyard Spencer says checks and balances will be put in place to help mitigate against those insured people seeking to cheat the Government out of billing their insurance companies for services when the abolition of user fees takes effect Tuesday....
Mad rush expected at Edna Manley Clinic
FOR THREE days a week, Natalie Madu travels from her home in Jacks Hill, St Andrew, to the Edna Manley Clinic in Grants Pen to seek treatment for her asthmatic one-year-old son.She says both trip and medication for the toddler are a toll on her slim resources....
No lull in action at Kingston Public Hospital - Casualty Department already under pressure. What will happen on April 1?
THE BLARING siren arrested everyone's attention. As the marked Suzuki Grand Vitara drove up and stopped outside the doors of the accident and emergency area at the Kingston Public Hospital, a porter came rushing through the doors with a wheelchair to assist the female police officer....
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