JAMAICA'S HEALTHCARE - Death Traps??- With Joseph L. Patterson

Having seen the conditions that exist in health care at the hospitals first-hand, a gross deterioration from when I worked in the hospital system in the 1970s, you know that you are at the mercy of God when you enter these institutions that are supposed to save your life.--- Apollone Reid, PhD

My questions are:

1. How many people in Jamaica who fall ill are able to afford private medical care?

2. Where is the political will to have programme evaluations done in the public sector and implement improvements so we can achieve effective functioning with the efficiency in service that Lee Kuan Yew achieved for Singapore?

3. Why is the press not interested in fighting for the health and safety of the masses rather than the sensationalism surrounding medical staff's threat to strike for salaries?

4. Why do we continue to have incompetent ministers of government under whose tenure the health system continues to deteriorate?

5. When will the governments of Jamaica adopt a comprehensive restructuring programme that is serious about cutting spending in areas that have no impact on how we as a nation learn and our leaders achieve benefits for the country?

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