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Hospitals in Jamaica Victoria Jubilee Hospital (initially known as the Victoria Jubilee Lying-In Hospital ) was founded in 1891 and opened to the public in 1892 in Kingston, Jamaica . [ 1 ] The current facility, the largest maternity hospital in the English-speaking Caribbean, features 248 beds and delivers around 8,000 babies annually.
El Shaddai Medical Centre Jamaica; Gynae Associates Hospital (private) Heart Institute of the Caribbean; Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) Maxfield Park Medical Center; Medical Associates Hospital (private) National Chest Hospital (NCH) Nuttall Memorial Hospital (private) Sir John Golding Rehabilitation Center; St. Joseph's Hospital
The Bustamante Hospital for Children was established in 1963 and has serves approximately 35,887 outpatients and 70,331 casualties per year. [1] It has 283 including 5 ICU beds.
In 1859, KPH began offering 24-hour service seven days per week. In 1936, the then Senior Medical Officer, Dr Arthur Westmorland, separated surgical from medical cases for the first time. Four new operating theatres were built in 1962, in addition to the two previously built in 1928.
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The Medical Council of Jamaica is the licensing body for doctors in Jamaica. Doctors in Jamaica are required to take continuing medical education courses to keep their licences. [1] [2] In 2004, amendments to the country's Medical Act (Jamaica) increased the number of non-doctors on the council. [3]
The Bellevue Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Jamaica, established with its current name in 1946, previously named the Jamaica Mental Hospital in 1938, and prior to that existed as the Jamaica Lunatic Asylum since 1861. [1] The hospital was established as a result of a petition by physician Louis Quier Bowerbank. [2]