A FEW WORDS ABOUT OUR HEALTH ”SCARE” DISASTER IN JAMAICA

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World Health Organization Ranking; The World’s Health Systems

1 France
2 Italy
3 San Marino
4 Andorra
5 Malta
6 Singapore
7 Spain
8 Oman
9 Austria
10 Japan
11 Norway
12 Portugal
13 Monaco
14 Greece
15 Iceland
16 Luxembourg
17 Netherlands
18 United Kingdom
19 Ireland
20 Switzerland
21 Belgium
22 Colombia
23 Sweden
24 Cyprus
25 Germany
26 Saudi Arabia
27 United Arab Emirates
28 Israel
29 Morocco
30 Canada
31 Finland
32 Australia
33 Chile
34 Denmark
35 Dominica
36 Costa Rica
37 USA
38 Slovenia
39 Cuba
40 Brunei
41 New Zealand
42 Bahrain
43 Croatia
44 Qatar
45 Kuwait
46 Barbados
47 Thailand
48 Czech Republic
49 Malaysia
50 Poland
51 Dominican Republic
52 Tunisia
53 Jamaica
54 Venezuela
55 Albania
56 Seychelles
57 Paraguay
58 South Korea
59 Senegal
60 Philippines
61 Mexico
62 Slovakia
63 Egypt
64 Kazakhstan 65 Uruguay
66 Hungary
67 Trinidad and Tobago
68 Saint Lucia
69 Belize
70 Turkey
71 Nicaragua
72 Belarus
73 Lithuania
74 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
75 Argentina
76 Sri Lanka
77 Estonia
78 Guatemala
79 Ukraine
80 Solomon Islands
81 Algeria
82 Palau
83 Jordan
84 Mauritius
85 Grenada
86 Antigua and Barbuda
87 Libya
88 Bangladesh
89 Macedonia
90 Bosnia-Herzegovina
91 Lebanon
92 Indonesia
93 Iran
94 Bahamas
95 Panama
96 Fiji
97 Benin
98 Nauru
99 Romania
100 Saint Kitts and Nevis
101 Moldova
102 Bulgaria
103 Iraq
104 Armenia
105 Latvia
106 Yugoslavia
107 Cook Islands
108 Syria
109 Azerbaijan
110 Suriname
111 Ecuador
112 India
113 Cape Verde
114 Georgia
115 El Salvador
116 Tonga
117 Uzbekistan
118 Comoros
119 Samoa
120 Yemen
121 Niue
122 Pakistan
123 Micronesia
124 Bhutan
125 Brazil
126 Bolivia
127 Vanuatu 128 Guyana
129 Peru
130 Russia
131 Honduras
132 Burkina Faso
133 Sao Tome and Principe
134 Sudan
135 Ghana
136 Tuvalu
137 Ivory Coast
138 Haiti
139 Gabon
140 Kenya
141 Marshall Islands
142 Kiribati
143 Burundi
144 China
145 Mongolia
146 Gambia
147 Maldives
148 Papua New Guinea
149 Uganda
150 Nepal
151 Kyrgystan
152 Togo
153 Turkmenistan
154 Tajikistan
155 Zimbabwe
156 Tanzania
157 Djibouti
158 Eritrea
159 Madagascar
160 Vietnam
161 Guinea
162 Mauritania
163 Mali
164 Cameroon
165 Laos
166 Congo
167 North Korea
168 Namibia
169 Botswana
170 Niger
171 Equatorial Guinea
172 Rwanda
173 Afghanistan
174 Cambodia
175 South Africa
176 Guinea-Bissau
177 Swaziland
178 Chad
179 Somalia
180 Ethiopia
181 Angola
182 Zambia
183 Lesotho
184 Mozambique
185 Malawi
186 Liberia
187 Nigeria
188 Democratic Republic of the Congo
189 Central African Republic
190 Myanmar
Source: World Health Organization

Although Jamaica is number 53 on the list, with what we know now, we would not like to see the condition of the other places that come behind our wonderful island.

I am told that when you visit Jamaica’s public hospitals you will not find soap or tissue in any one them. Hospital staff carry their personal hand sanitizers and tissue with them because there is none. Mops are being used that are over six months old and unsanitized linen are being carried into the hospitals by the families of patients.
There has always been a culture of bringing your night gown/sheet to the hospital in Jamaica to spread on the already sparsely sanitized beds, sometimes taking home the sheets to wash and returning them with more germs on them than before. Professional sanitizing companies will tell you that merely washing linens and clothes in detergent and room temperature water may not get rid of the germs in them. So, one of the chief ways of keeping infection in hospitals is really continuing to subscribe to this culture. A hospital’s chief objective should be to save lives, not to remain open as it is just merely a facility to have. Service and serving it’s patients should be a priority
High theft plagues Jamaica’s hospitals by hospital staff.Mandatory searches should be done and financial audits should be carried out monthly. Parties who are guilty of stealing should be promptly dismissed. On any given day, you may overhear a hairdresser talking about gloves they purchase from hospital personnel,soap or even gauze. A drop a day can fill a bucket eventually; That one box of glove, will add up to a case of gloves, that small bottle of soap easily becomes a gallon.A hospital robe becomes dozens of robes.These items are residing in the homes of the staff while the hospitals are doing without.It can’t be only that the person doing the purchasing order for soap etc isn’t ordering enough, stealing plays a big part in hospital supplies being sparse. Perpetrators should be held accountable and should lose their jobs for stealing hospital property. Big up to the company/factory in Jamaica who fired the employee for stealing half a cabbage and the other one for a half bottle of oil. Its not the amount its the principle behind the theft.Bring them into account !

0 thoughts on “A FEW WORDS ABOUT OUR HEALTH ”SCARE” DISASTER IN JAMAICA

  1. Met is on the JLP payroll. She is always on the lookout for negative news to report on Jamaica. She is always stalking Lisa Hanna, a good comrade.

  2. I guess I will have to post this about Minister Hanna, since met will not deem this news worthy since it contradicts a previous thread of hers.

    TEF confirms M.P. Lisa Hanna received no funds for pavement of school
    7:50 am, Wed November 11, 2015

    The Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) says between 2011 and the present, it received no project proposals from Member of Parliament for St. Ann South Eastern Lisa Hanna for the Bensonton division where the Prickly Pole Primary School is located.

    Two months ago, claims surfaced that Miss Hanna had received funding to pave the school yard but the work had not been done. The media was given a document titled Detailed Programme of Work – TEF/NSWMA, the last line of which read – pavement of Prickly Pole School Front, but with no dollar figure attached.

    Miss Hanna said the project was proposed but never approved by her constituency executive and as such no funding was sought for it. The allegations sparked a demonstration, which made national headlines when 11-year-old Akella Lewis died after protestors first stopped at the school.

    Our Access to Information request to the Tourism Enhancement Fund had asked for all documentation from Miss Hanna’s office to the Fund relating to project proposals concerning Prickly Pole Primary School and the Bensonton Division in general. But a response from the Tourism Enhancement Fund, over the signature of executive Director Clyde Harris said no such proposal had been received.

      1. Who cares? Obviously you did some weeks ago when you were in cahoots with other Labourites to suggest that Lisa Hanna stole government funds. Are you now prepared to withdraw such outlandish claims and publicly apologize to the Minister? :thumbup

  3. You must be Lisa’s paid PR, is image all she cares about? What is she doing about the wonton sexual exploitation of children in Jamaica and the use of social media to further victimise them, in her role as minister of youth and culture? I will wait…

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