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Newsletter – 2024

NEW YEAR, NEW OPPORTUNITIES “Life is about creating new opportunities,not waiting for them to come to you.” – Salma Hayek Hello everyone!! Hi Everyone! I know it’s been a while. It has been a busy year, but we are back to provide a full review of all you missed in 2023. Before that, we wish you all a Happy New Year …

Bustamante Hospital gets peritoneal dialysis machines

Latoya Aquart-Foster (right), project manager, CHASE Fund, looks at the dialysis machine with (from left) Beverley Senior Berry, director of nursing services; Anthony Wood, CEO of Bustamante Hospital for Children; Dr Colin Abel; Dr Sandrica Young Peart, consultant paediatrician and paediatric nephrologist at Bustamante Hospital; Dr Maolynne Miller, chairperson of Jamaica Kidney Kids Foundation (JKKF), and Michelle Finnikin Campbell, acting …

Major focus on the kidney this week

MONTEGO BAY, St James — This week is being observed as World Kidney Awareness Week, and the renal dialysis unit at Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) has planned a host of activities geared at raising awareness of chronic kidney disease and renal failure. This year’s World Kidney Awareness Week is being observed from March 5-11, with World Kidney Day celebrated on …