Frequently Asked Questions

How may I contribute to this programme if I am not a doctor?

You need to write to the Ministry of Health or the Regional Health Authorities advising them of your area of expertise and expressing your interest to work as a volunteer.

How can I talk to other medical professionals already here?

Each Health Authority has a list of doctors and associated specialties. The interested person can request the list.

What's fun in our beautiful Island?

A package about our beautiful island will be submitted to all volunteers. Here is a brief description of our beautiful island, excerpts taken from the Jamaica Tourist Board brochure.

Jamaica is the largest English-speaking country in the Caribbean Sea, stretching 146 miles from east to west.

For those who like to explore, the island offers a feast of contrasts.  The north coast, with its popular resort areas of Montego Bay, Runaway Bay, Ocho Rios and Port Antonio, features fine coral beaches and broad plains where sugar cane, coconuts and citrus fruits are grown.  On the western tip of the island is Negril, once a remote, swampy outpost but now a beachcomber’s paradise.  The southern region of the island offers a rugged coastline where majestic mountains plunge into the sea - like inspirational Lover's Leap in St. Elizabeth, a 1500-foot cliff of romantic legend.

The center of the island is mostly mountainous and heavily wooded, spotted occasionally with small mining towns and villages. And, of course, there's the famous Cockpit Country in the Northwest region, an eerie terrain of conical hills and deep sinkholes. The central mountain range, dominated by the 7,402-foot Blue Mountain, divides the south coast of the island from the north and extends from Half Moon Bay to Portland. This great variety of terrain and climate allows virtually everything to grow here.

Visitors can step into a country market and see a vast array of tropical fruits and vegetables with such unfamiliar names as callaloo, dasheen, soursop, breadfruit, cho-cho, ackee and Otaheite apple. Jamaica's main exports (other than tourism) are sugar, citrus, fruits, bananas, spices, bauxite and world-famous Blue Mountain Coffee.

Source: Jamaica Tourist Board Brochure