WITH an audit confirming that a number of the country’s public health facilities need to be renovated, Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has instructed regional authorities to take corrective action to address concerns raised in June during an islandwide protest by medical interns.

“Having had the draft report, we went through a couple of issues. There is some review that was required by the chief medical officer, and then another discussion to be had with the JMDA (Jamaica Medical Doctors’ Association). But the long and short of it is that the report does confirm that there are a number of facilities that are outstanding and requiring some renovation,” he told the Jamaica Observer Tuesday.

The audit was, among other things, an effort to gauge the working and living conditions of medical interns across the public health system.