CRAIGHEAD, Manchester — Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton says the assessment phase is still ongoing in western Jamaica where approximately 100 health centres sustained damage during the passage of Hurricane Melissa just over eight months ago.

“The engineers are in the field doing the analysis now…and we do anticipate that in the next month or so we will have a better handle on what the costs are and we will start the more substantial renovation of a number of health centres,” Tufton told journalists on Thursday at the reopening of the Craighead Health Centre in northern Manchester.

The health centre serves approximately 18,000 residents across northern Manchester, bordering southern Trelawny, and underwent $45.6 million in renovation and expansion work under Operation Refresh.