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JAMAICA
The University Hospital, Kingston Public Hospital and the Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay are class A secondary and tertiary referral centres. Class B hospitals (providing in- and outpatient services in general surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology and paediatrics) are located in St Ann’s Bay, Savannah-la-Mar, Mandeville and Spanish Town. There are also about a dozen smaller class C hospitals that are parish-based with two or three doctors providing general medicine, child and community care. Specialist hospitals include: The Victoria Jubilee (maternity), the Bustamante Children’s Hospital, the Mona Rehabilitation Centre (physiotherapy and OT for sufferers from polio, spasticity, amputation and paraplegia), the Bellevue (psychiatry), the National Chest Hospital and the Hope Institute (palliative care). About 450 doctors work in the public hospital and health centres. Elsewhere there are 750 doctors working within the private healthcare system. Useful Address: Jamaican Ministry of
Health, 2-4 King Street, Jamiaca Tel: +876 967 1101 Fax: 967 7293 www.moh.gov.jm University of the West
Indies - Jamaica The University Hospital
of the West Indies, Mona, St Andrew, Kingston 7, Jamaica WI. Tel: +876
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