PONDSIDE PRIMARY SCHOOL GETS NEW CLASSROOMS
With the impending resumption of face-to-face learning, students and staff at Pondside Primary and Infant School in Hanover will benefit from two newly built classrooms, bathroom facilities, a play area, perimeter fencing among other structural improvements. The construction project, valued at J$ 25,410,000 ....
JAMAICA NOW ABLE TO TRACK COVID-19 WITH GENOME SEQUENCER PROVIDED BY CHASE
Jamaica’s coronavirus testing capability has been boosted with the acquisition of a Genome Sequencing machine. The machine, which was handed over to the National Influenza Centre (NIC) at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) on October 22, 2021, will allow the NIC to test for variant strains of the coronavirus
CHASE FUND BOOSTING SERVICES PROVIDED BY LIBRARIES
Through a donation of JM $27.5 million from the Culture, Health, Arts, Sports, and Education (CHASE) Fund, the JLS was able to respond strongly and enable students to effectively participate in the new learning modalities which have been necessitated by COVID-19.
CHASE FUND PROVIDES $50 MILLION TO EQUIP BASIC SCHOOLS WITH PPEs AND OTHER SUPPLIES
The country’s early-childhood institutions have benefited from much-needed support to better enable them to operate within the health and safety guidelines stipulated by the Government to reduce transmission of the coronavirus (COVID-19). Through funding of $50 million from the CHASE Fund ...
CHASE FUND TO PROVIDE 2,000 TABLET COMPUTERS FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD INSTUITUTIONS
Over 2,000 students have benefitted from tablet computers donated by the Culture, Health, Arts, Sports and Education (CHASE) Fund to early childhood institutions across Jamaica to facilitate virtual learning.
700,000 JAMAICANS TO BENEFIT FROM DONATION OF SURGICAL EQUIPMENT BY CHASE FUND
More than 700,000 Jamaicans in the parishes of St. Elizabeth, Manchester and Clarendon are benefitting from improved access to healthcare through the donation of $32 million by the Culture, Health, Arts, Sports and Education (CHASE) Fund for the acquisition of surgical equipment for health facilities in the Southern Regional Health Authority (SRHA).
Healthcare for renal patients in the southern region of Jamaica has received a boost with the recent installation of eight new dialysis machines at the Mandeville Regional Hospital. The hospital serves approximately 900 renal patients annually from the parishes of Manchester, Clarendon and St. Elizabeth. The machines, valued at $23.1 million
EIGHT NEW DIALYSIS MACHINES INSTALLED AT MANDEVILLE REGIONAL HOSPITAL
CHASE FUND DONATES PRINTERS TO INFANT DEPARTMENTS
Eleven early childhood institutions (ECIs) across the island have received multifunction printers, ink cartridges and paper donated by the CHASE Fund. The printers will enable schools to provide printed work as directed by the Ministry of Education, for distribution to children who do not have access to online materials during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
In five months of operation, the High Dependency Unit (HDU) at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) is achieving its objective of lessening the burden on the recovery rooms and the hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU).
With a 16-bed capacity, the HDU offers specialist nursing care and monitoring to seriously ill patients essentially operating as an intermediate level of care between what is provided on a general ward and the ICU.
HIGH DEPENDENCY UNIT UP AND RUNNING AT KPH
Culture
libraries, archives, historic sites, documentation facilities, cultural activities, monuments, documentary film footage
Health
equipping and upgrading health facilities, training of personnel, cancer prevention, detection, treatment and care, kidney failure treatment, programmes for prevention of drug abuse, health care for the mentally challenge
Arts
local museums, cultural displays and exhibitions, training
Sports
develop dynamic leadership qualities in youth, sports development as part of national building
Education
building, upgrading and equipping of early childhood resource centres, support research, scholarships for specialists
