{"id":1415,"date":"2018-05-16T19:03:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T19:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2018-05-16T19:03:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T19:03:27","slug":"crh-rehab-under-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=1415","title":{"rendered":"CRH rehab under scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"

An oversight committee has been named by the Ministry of Health to oversee the rehabilitation of the problem-plagued Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay, St. James.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The five-member committee, which held its first meeting yesterday, is headed by principal of the University of the West Indies Mona, Professor Archibald McDonald, who is a trained surgeon.<\/p>\n

According to the Ministry of Health, the multi-skilled, independent oversight committee for the rehabilitation project at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) is in a move to ensure accountability and provide transparency to the Jamaican public.<\/p>\n

Other members of the committee include: Claudette Bryan, president of the St. James Lay Magistrates\u2019 Association; Professor Ishenkumba Kahwa, renowned chemist and deputy principal of the UWI; Errol Alberga, architect and senior partner at Alberga Graham Jamaica, who has done work on the Kingston Public Hospital and Earl Richards, former president of the Airports Authority of Jamaica.<\/p>\n

The committee is mandated to review information from the Ministry of Health\/PanAmerican Health Organization on the progress of implementation of key project areas for the CRH.<\/p>\n

They are also to:<\/p>\n

Review reports on the delivery of clinical services at the CRH covering the on-site and off-site locations to which services have been relocated;<\/p>\n

Provide recommendations to the Minister of Health on matters related to the execution of the project and advise on any concerns or developments; as well as<\/p>\n

Monitor the compliance and progress of the project in relation to implementation of the key project areas and ensure that any required strategic changes are undertaken in a timely manner so that the project achieves its goals.<\/p>\n

Mandated to meet monthly or as often as they deem necessary, the committee is, too, to:<\/p>\n

Provide direction and assistance in resolving issues that may delay the timely execution of the project; and<\/p>\n

Provide monthly updates on the project and the delivery of hospital services to the general public.<\/p>\n

Committee Chairman McDonald in expressing confidence in the team said:<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe we have quite a competent team to provide oversight for what is clearly a very large project. Professor Kahwa and I have had quite a bit of experience in dealing with mould on the Mona campus and I believe that will serve the committee well. We have two architects, I believe, and there is Ms. Claudette Bryan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am looking forward to doing this, what is considered a very important job. I am a surgeon by training and also a medical educator; our students are trained at Cornwall Regional Hospital. This is very dear to my heart,\u201d the UWI principal said further.<\/p>\n

In thanking the members for their service, Minister of Health Dr. Christopher Tufton said he was confident that they would fulfil their mandate, given their individual and collective experience.<\/p>\n

The opposition Peoples National Party, PNP, has called for a commission of inquiry into the operations of the CRH, which has seen the relocation of almost all departments of the multi-disciplinary facility due to a mould contamination, but the government has shot down the call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An oversight committee has been named by the Ministry of Health to oversee the rehabilitation of the problem-plagued Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay, St. James. The five-member committee, which held its first meeting yesterday, is headed by principal of the University of the West Indies Mona, Professor Archibald McDonald, who is a trained surgeon. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[112,623,622,624,30],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-cornwall-regional-hospital","tag-crh","tag-ministry-of-health","tag-scrutiny","tag-western-jamaica"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1417,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/1417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}