Through continued collaborative partnership with The Ministry of Health (MOH) and The University Hospital of the West Indies, a Thermal Fog Generating Insecticide Application Machine was donated to the UHWI. This donation intensifies the MOH environmental management efforts in the prevention of  transmission of vector-borne diseases. This machine was handed over to the UHWI Public Health team on Friday, April 22, 2016.  

 

 

Participating in the handover were:

  1. Dr. Winston De La Haye, Chief Medical Officer
  2.  Mr. James Moss-Solomon, Board Chairman
  3. Mr Kevin Allen, Chief Executive Officer
  4. Dr. Carl Bruce, Senior Director, Clinical Services
  5. Mrs. Janet Coore-Farr, UHWI Board Member and President, Nurses Association of Jamaica
  6. Mr. Fitzgerald Mitchell, Senior Director, Operations and Facilities
  7. Mrs Novelet Mckenzie-Murray, Chief Public health Officer, UHWI
  8. Ms. Jasmine Thomas, Public Health Nurse, UHWI
  9. Ms. Millicent Wedemeir, Public Health Nurse, UHWI
  10. Mr Gareth Simpson, Vector Control Worker
  11. Mr. Clifton Johnson, Vector Control Worker
  12. Mr. Richard Skyers, Vector Control Worker