Health Services Network Strengthening
The project seeks to alleviate the pressure on the reference hospitals in Kingston from the large, underserved populations in three parishes of the country’s interior. It promotes the construction, remodelling, and expansion and provision of medical equipment for ten health centres in the catchment areas of the hospitals. It also helps the government in the development and implementation of policies to combat non-communicable diseases (NCDs) as well as to strengthen priority health care services’ networks (three hospitals and associated health centres).
The main objective of the IDB-led operation is to improve the health of Jamaica’s population. The specific objectives are:
1. To reduce the burden of NCDs through the support for prevention policies;
2. To improve access to health services.
- Decrease in mortality and morbidity resulting from greater coverage and quality of health network services provided through investments in infrastructure, equipment, management improvement and implementation of health information systems in hospitals and primary health care services;
- Quantified gains in the productivity of the population derived from better health.
