Minister calls emergency security talks at KPH

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Monday, December 30, 2013 | 3:02 PM

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Health Minister Dr Fenton Ferguson has called an emergency stakeholders meeting for 3:00pm today (Monday, December 30) to discuss security arrangements at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH). Dr Ferguson will meet with representatives of the Nurses Association (NAJ), the Medical Association of Jamaica and the Jamaica Medical Doctors Association along with representatives of the South East Regional Health Authority, the ministry said in a ststement. This meeting follows recent reports of robberies and concerns about a lack of security at the Caribbean’s largest hospital. Dr Ferguson says he has already commenced discussions with Police Commissioner Owen Ellington and so far the response regarding improved security at the hospital has been favourableAccording to reports the KPH and its environs have seen an alarming rise in incidents of robbery of staff members, particularly nurses. The NAJ has condemned the attacks while urging all “well-thinking Jamaicans to join in the repudiation of that type of behaviour”.        

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Minister calls emergency security talks at KPH