DR CHRISTOPHER Tufton, the health minister, is causing a lot of people to reconsider their perception of him as a quick study. It has taken him all of three years, the expenditure of more than a billion dollars of taxpayers’ money, plus the help of high-powered analysts to conclude that Jamaican architects, engineers and contractors cannot build hospitals. More likely, he has misdiagnosed the problem. In other words, while they had a notion of what was to be done, Dr Tufton and his staff at the health ministry mischaracterised what was required at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay, St James, leading to an imprecise terms of reference, and, ultimately, a lot of time-wasting and costly, unproductive outcomes. Or put differently, no matter how long ago Jamaica constructed its last hospital, it could not be difficult for properly briefed and appropriately resourced builders to make themselves