Minister of state in the Ministry of Health and Wellness Juliet Cuthbert Flynn accepted a donation of medical equipment and supplies valued at more than US$300,000 from the United States Embassy’s Chargé d’Affaires John McIntyre at Glen Vincent Health Centre in St Andrew on Thursday.
Charge d’ Affairs at the United States Embassy John McIntyre used the occasion at the handover of medical equipment, supplies and power generators to the Glen Vincent Health Centre in Kingston, to reinforce the strong partnership between his country and Jamaica.
The gifts are valued at over US$300,000.
The donation, in conjunction with the 70-bed mobile field hospital, is a US$444,000 supplemental action, and was purchased as part of the US Southern Command’s ongoing assistance to nations responding to the global pandemic in the Caribbean, Central America and South America and funded by the command’s Humanitarian Assistance Programme (HAP).
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