Bustamante Hospital for Children
Jamaica Hospital for Children is a children's hospital in Kingston, Jamaica, located on Arthur Wint Drive in the Kingston 5 district of the city, near the national stadium Independence Park and the Bob Marley statue. It is the only children's hospital amongst English speaking nations in the Caribbean.
History
The Bustamante Hospital for Children was established in 1963 and has serves approximately 35,887 outpatients and 70,331 casualties per year. It has 283 including 5 ICU beds. It was a former British Military Hospital but was transformed into a children's hospital after the British left in 1962 and was named after the then Prime Minister, Sir Alexander Bustamante.Services
The hospitals services available includes:- General Medicine
- Cardiology
- Neurology
- Asthma
- Respiratory ailments
- Nephrology
- Dermatology
- Rheumatology
- General Surgery
- Neurosurgery
- Orthopedics
- Urology
- Ears, Nose and Throat
- Plastic and Burns
- Ophthalmology