The Ministry of Health and Wellness will be increasing the deployment of health personnel across the island in preparation for the reopening of the country’s borders to international travellers on June 15.
“We are now employing another 1,000 community health aides across the country and that will bolster the number of persons we have,” said Portfolio Minister, Dr Christopher Tufton.
Already, the Ministry has redeployed numerous healthcare professionals to engage in screening at the ports of entry as more Jamaicans arrive in the island under the controlled re-entry protocol.
“These are persons who would otherwise be doing other things in the public health system, community health aides, primary healthcare nurses, public health inspectors and doctors,” Tufton.
He said the Government anticipates that containing COVID-19 will require expanding capacity to deal with the disease and other areas of the public health system.
