Yesterday on hearing the news of neonatal deaths at the Karl Huesner Memorial Hospital (KHMH), the Ministry of Health immediately contacted the Board of Directors of the KHMH to offer to place the full resources of the Ministry of Health at their disposal to rapidly resolve this tragic situation.
This morning the Director of Maternal and Child Health, the National Epidemiologist and an Infection ... Read more...
MINISTRY OF HEALTH GRAND CHALLENGES CANADA GRANT NUMBER 0088-04
INTEGRATED INNOVATIONS IN GLOBAL MENTAL HEALTH: IMPROVE TREATMENTS AND EXPAND ACCESS TO CARE IN LOW AND MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES: IMPROVING PREVENTION AND TREATMENT SYSTEMS BASED ON PRIMARY HEALTH CARE FOR ALCOHOL USE PROBLEMS IN TWO CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES – GUYANA AND BELIZEVACANCY NOTICETitle: Pr... Read more...
Central Health Region, Ministry of Health, joins the global community to recognize its nurses as part of Nurses Week, May 12-17 2013. Mrs. Melinda Guerra, Regional Manager, expresses her appreciation to active and retired nurses who have contributed their invaluable work at Central Health Region.
This year, Nurses Week is being celebrated under the theme: “Closing the Gap: The Millennium Develo... Read more...
The Ministry of Health Belize is pleased to be a sub-grantee on the project “Improving prevention and treatment systems based on primary health care for alcohol use problems in two Caribbean Countries – Guyana and Belize’ funded by Grand Challenges Canada to the Grantee Ministry of Health, Guyana.”
The overall objectives of the project is to implement and improve on the delivery of health... Read more...
The Minister of Health of Belize, Pablo Marin was joined by the Minister of Health of Guatemala, Jorge Alejandro Villavicencio, Kim Simplis Barrow, Spouse of the Prime Minister of Belize, and the Director of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) Carissa F. Etienne for the 11th regional launch of the Vaccination Week in the Americas held yesterday at the Adjacenc... Read more...
The Ministry of Health joins our national partners, the Belize Kidney Association and the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) – Belize to celebrate World Health Day 2013. This year’s campaign focuses on high blood pressure or Hypertension and the need to “Know your numbers.”
At least one in three adults in the Americas has high blood pressure or hyper... Read more...
The Ministry of Health, Central Health Region in collaboration with Dr. Otto Rodriguez San Pedro Polyclinic, San Pedro Town Council and other partners in health, conducted a health fair on 23 March 2013 at the Lions Club in San Pedro Town. Six new San Pedro Community Health Workers (CHWs) were presented and endorsed by all collaborating partners and the community.
In his presentation, Mr. Emir ... Read more...
The Ministry of Health is investigating a cluster of fourteen suspected cases of Hepatitis A that have occurred over the last three weeks in the Trio Village, Stann Creek District. One such case has been confirmed by lab.
Hepatitis A is a food and waterborne disease with symptoms that may include yellowing of the eyes and skin, dark urine, light-colored stool along with mild fever, vomiting, di... Read more...
The National Tuberculosis (TB) Program of The Ministry of Health joins the international community to partner in the campaign to promote World TB Day 2013. World TB Day provides an opportunity for health care providers, communities and other partners to discuss and plan further collaboration to stop TB through advocacy and action.
The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the wo... Read more...
The Ministry of Health (MOH) in collaboration with the United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Prevention’s Regional Office in Central America and Panama (CDC-CAP), Training Programs in Epidemiology and Public Health Interventions Network (TEPHINET) in Collaboration with Naval Medical Research Unit 6 (NAMRU) embarked on the third cohort in a Basic Level course in a Field Epidemiolog... Read more...