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A performance audit by the Auditor General of Jamaica has found that the National Health Fund, the statutory body responsible for supplying medicines to the country’s public hospitals and health centres, delivered fewer than two in three drug orders

The Auditor General of Jamaica has found that the South East Regional Health Authority — responsible for hospitals and health centres serving nearly half of the country’s population — failed to consistently demonstrate that it secured value for money

A performance audit of the Ministry of Health’s management of mental health services has exposed one of the most lopsided resource allocations in the Jamaican public sector — a system that warehouses clinically stable patients for decades while denyi

A landmark performance audit of the Ministry of Health found that Jamaica’s public health system spent years failing to adequately prevent, detect, or manage diabetes — a disease killing more Jamaicans than almost any other condition. For patients at

The government laboratory at the centre of Jamaica’s public health surveillance system has been operating without a functioning legal framework for more than a decade, while thousands of patient samples piled up unprocessed and tuberculosis testing w

When Jamaica abolished prescription charges at public hospitals between 2007 and 2008, it promised millions of patients — many of them poor, elderly, and chronically ill — that essential medicines would be within reach regardless of their ability to pay.

When Jamaica abolished prescription charges at public hospitals between 2007 and 2008, it promised millions of patients — many of them poor, elderly, and chronically ill — that essential medicines would be within reach regardless of their ability to pay.