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Amid growing concerns about the administering of leftover AstraZeneca vaccines to persons who are not registered for inoculation at this time, the Health Ministry has sou
Mark Golding
Opposition Leader Mark Golding is calling for the Auditor General to probe reports of breaches in the COVID-19 vaccination rollout programme. These breaches violate the principles of efficiency, equity and transparency on which the government had promised that the vaccination programme would be based. They also undermine the Government’s stated objectives of, protecting the integrity of the healthcare system and infrastructure for the continuity of essential services, and reducing severe morbidity and mortality associated with COVID-19 , said Golding in a statement to the media.
He called for the Auditor General to conduct an audit to ascertain if satisfactory procedures have been established by the Government, and to examine the records as to those who have received the vaccine, in order to indicate the nature and extent of the procedural breaches.
An additional 72 hospital beds are to be added to the national count, as the Ministry of Health and Wellness is to commission two new facilities into service to deal with
Colin Gager
Falmouth Mayor, Colin Gager, is upbeat at news that the field hospital that is being erected on the grounds of the Falmouth Public General Hospital in Trelawny is slated to be completed by the end of this month.
The Falmouth Hospital is one of three of the country’s primary healthcare facilities that are currently near COVID-19 capacity, as Jamaica has seen a spike in cases of the pandemic over recent weeks.
According to healthcare officials, the rise in cases is mainly in the western end of the island, and the development has placed a strain on the health facilities there.