The Ministry of Health and Wellness is completing assessments to finalise costings for the renovation of health centres impacted by Hurricane Melissa.

Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton said that about 100 health centres in the five worst affected parishes – St Elizabeth, Trelawny, Hanover, Westmoreland and St James – are being prioritised for attention. Tufton informed that engineers are in the field doing the analysis and costings.

“They were in St Elizabeth... visiting the facilities, and we anticipate that in the next month or so, we will have a better handle on what the costs are and then we will start the more substantial renovation,” he said. Tufton was addressing the reopening of the Craighead Health Centre in Manchester recently, which was renovated at a cost of $45.6 million under Operation REFRESH.