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US Embassy gifts Glen Vincent Health Centre with medical supplies

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).

National lab receives boost to COVID testing with donation of purification system

December 12, 2020 Minister of State, Ministry of Health and Wellness, Juliet Cuthbert Flynn (second right), listens as Senior Medical Technologist, National Public Health Laboratory, Cindy Thomas (right), highlights the features of the Kingfisher Flex Purification System. Others (from left) are Director, National Laboratory Services, Dr. Michelle Hamilton; and Ambassador of Spain to Jamaica and President of the Spanish-Jamaican Foundation, His Excellency, Josep Bosch Bessa. The Spanish-Jamaican Foundation, has officially handed over a purification system to the National Public Health Laboratory, which will improve efficiency in the testing of samples for COVID-19. The Kingfisher Flex system, valued at US$94,039 allows for rapid and efficient processing of samples.

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