Ebola

Nelson Arboleda, director of the U.S.' Center for Disease Control and Prevention for Central America (CDC), speaks to journalists before the start of a regional meeting on fighting Ebola in Latin America and Africa, in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014. The CDC's participation is the most concrete sign to date of the U.S.' and Cuba's expressed desire to cooperate against the disease. Cuba is sending at least 256 medical workers to West Africa to treat and prevent Ebola.FRANKLIN REYES/AP PHOTO

U.S. and Cuba Come Together Over Ebola, Infuriating Republicans

After some initial hedging, the United States seems to have embraced the idea of working closely with Cuba on the global response to the Ebola epidemic.

November 2, 2014
Published in Health

Men work near a tent of a field hospital set up for training purposes, in the Pedro Kouri Tropical Medicine Institute, where Cuban doctors train for their Ebola mission, in Havana . Photo: Reuters

Cuba to Host International Course against Ebola

HAVANA, Cuba, Nov. 1 (acn) The Havana-based Pedro Kouri Tropical Medicine Institute will be the venue to the first International Course for the prevention and fighting against Ebola in the Americas, Cuban deputy health minister Marcia Cobas announced.The course will run from November 10 to 15.

October 31, 2014
Published in Health

Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay

Cornwall Regional Hospital prepares for Ebola

Given its strategic role as the premier hospital in western Jamaica, the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) is being made ready in earnest to professionally handle any emergency associated with the deadly Ebola virus.

October 31, 2014
Published in Health

Chief Commercial Officer MBJ Airports, Elizabeth Brown Scotton (left) in dialogue with Minister of Health, Dr. The Hon. Fenton Ferguson (centre) and Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Western Regional Health Authority, Calvin G. Brown on Wednesday during a visit to the Sangster International Airport to review preparedness in the fight against Ebola entering the island. – CWP photo

Health Minister seeks airlines’ support in Ebola battle

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica Oct. 30, 2014 - Minister of Health, Dr. Fenton Ferguson is to hold talks with airlines flying into Jamaica to get their support in the battle to prevent Ebola entering the island.

October 30, 2014
Published in Health

T&T’s Keith Rowley tells CARICOM: Establish a visitor protocol

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, Oct. 27, 2014 - Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley says the absence of a CARICOM protocol on visitors to the region in the face of the Ebola threat was “worrisome”.

October 27, 2014
Published in Caribbean

The U.S.A. Willing to Cooperate with Cuba against Ebola

HAVANA, Cuba, Oct 24 (acn) The United States is willing to cooperate with Cuba in the international al struggle against Ebola in Western Africa, as confirmed on Wednesday to EFE by a spokeswoman of the State Department.

October 24, 2014
Published in Health

National Security Minister Peter Bunting (left) and Sagicor President and Chief Executive Officer, Richard Byles (right), addresses journalists during Tuesday’s announcement of the financial institution’s funding of a state-of-the-art thermal temperature scanner, being acquired from Canada at a cost of approximately $4.3 million (US$38,000). The machine will be installed at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay.

Jamaica to ramp up maritime surveillance

KINGSTON, Jamaica Oct 22, 2014 - National Security Minister Peter Bunting, says the country’s maritime surveillance capacity, encompassing monitoring of the country’s territorial waters, will have to be ramped up, as part of the Government’s Ebola preparedness and response mechanism.

October 22, 2014
Published in local news

OECS Health Ministers say Chik-V and Ebola are urgent priorities

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Monday October 20, 2014 - Health Ministers of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, OECS, have identified Chikungunya and Ebola as the most urgent public health priorities facing the region at this time.

October 20, 2014
Published in Health

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