World Bank lists Jamaica among top countries with improved

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World Bank lists Jamaica among top countries with improved healthcare access

2013-02-17 11:56:24 | (0 Comments)









The Kingston Public Hospital. - File
Jamaica has been listed among 22 developing countries by the [COLOR=blue !important][COLOR=blue !important]World [COLOR=blue !important]Bank[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] that have significantly expanded access to healthcare.

According to a report by CANA, even though the World Bank has identified several challenges affecting healthcare, it is convinced that Jamaica has taken adequate steps to improve healthcare delivery.

It says the country’s primary [COLOR=blue !important][COLOR=blue !important]healthcare [COLOR=blue !important]system[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] was a model for the region during the 1990’s, as Jamaicans enjoy a better health status when compared to other countries in the region with similar income levels.

It highlighted the establishment of the National Health Fund and the removal of user fees in 2008 as efforts which indicate that the Government has been doing much to achieve Universal Healthcare.

The study also discussed policy options for achieving universal coverage.

However, the World Bank said the country is continuously challenged by persistent and re-emerging infectious diseases and an increase in non-communicable diseases. It added that Jamaica faces a severe debt problem, which has undermined economic growth and leaves limited fiscal space for improving healthcare.

Among the other countries included in the study are Argentina, China, Colombia Mexico and Nigeria.

[Historian]

In Addition....

owever, the World Bank said the country is continuously challenged by persistent and re-emerging infectious diseases and an increase in non-communicable diseases. It added that Jamaica faces a severe debt problem, which has undermined economic growth and leaves limited fiscal space for improving healthcare.

Among the other countries included in the study are Argentina, China, Colombia Mexico and Nigeria.

Our improved health care is real, and this is one of the positives for Jamaica at the moment. Nevertheless, a crucial element is missing from the challenges listed in this World Bank report....

Hell in hospital - Security beefed up at health facilities islandwide after May Pen murder

Published: Wednesday | January 16, 2013



Ministry of Health officials leave the May Pen Hospital while a policeman stands by the entrance to the facility after the murder of a patient by gunmen on Monday night. - photos by Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer



Policemen walk the corridors of the May Pen Hospital after Monday night's incident. - Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer


Livern Barrett and Horace Fisher, Gleaner Writers
The brazen murder of an injured man by masked gunmen who invaded the May Pen Hospital, in Clarendon, yesterday has prompted the Jamaican police and health officials to undertake a review of security arrangements at all public hospitals.

At the same time, the Police High Command has announced that the National Intelligence Bureau will immediately begin conducting risk assessments on every patient admitted to public hospitals with a gunshot wound.

"(This) with a view of briefing local police and private security firms employed by the hospitals so that pre-emptive measures can be taken if necessary," the high command explained.

In the interim, however, the high command said a police post would be immediately established at the hospital to improve security for employees and patients.

The measures were announced after Mayor of May Pen Scean Barnswell, Deputy Commissioner of Police Glenmore Hinds, officials from the health ministry and local pastors met with traumatised employees at the hospital.
Adiff Washington, 37, was shot four times as he lay wounded in a ward at the May Pen Hospital early yesterday morning.

Eyewitnesses told The Gleaner that he was killed by two masked men who surprised the security guards posted outside the ward.

Read more: http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/2...ead/lead1.html

[Lazie]

...another sign that these jokers don't know what is good for them. And to think because of politics there are those who saw the move as a bad policy. A nation of jokers.