KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica’s Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton has used the 79th World Health Assembly (WHA) to push ahead with his plans to recruit specialist nurses as well as inking deals for ongoing training arrangements for these critical healthcare workers.

Minister Tufton, on the sidelines of the WHA, held bilateral talks and signed off on Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with fellow health ministers from Ghana, India and The Philippines, which will not only see the arrival of nurses to fill critical specialists posts in Jamaica, but will a see the ramping up of training, to be accessed remotely by selected nurses in Jamaica.

“We will be establishing a simulation centre in Jamaica where inhouse training will be provided remotely to our nurses,” said Dr Tufton.