Hospital and healthcare services could face disruption today as the Jamaica Medical Doctors Association (JMDA) has called for doctors and supporters to wear blue as a visible sign of solidarity with interns who are planning to take protest action.

According to the association, the call is for urgent action to address long-standing concerns and comes on the heels of industrial action by nurses in the Accident and Emergency (A&E) Department of the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI).

In a release, the JMDA said it was bringing public awareness to an ongoing issue plaguing the health sector, namely, the “significant reduction in the number of interns who are working within the medical facilities islandwide”.