Readers’ reactions

Calls for health system reform from Opposition mischievous, says Tufton

The reform that is needed in the healthcare system has to begin with the workers in the healthcare facilities. Doesn’t matter how much reform takes place, unless these facilities are staffed with people who show care and empathy it will not make a difference. Caregivers who lack kindness and empathy make the experience of patients a living hell. – @BettyJa77533964

Jamaica’s healthcare system is in need of reform. – @MrR3N01

Public healthcare need upgrades and better access. If it was good enough, the elite would use it. Medical expertise is there but it lacks operational medical equipment and bed space. People wait excessive amount of time to be seen only to be sent to private diagnostic centres. – @pearson_so1968

Then we don’t need a flashlight to see the healthcare sector needs an overhaul. – @truthprobe

It looks like they are going crazy. Anybody who uses the public healthcare system will see it needs reform. Only one who got special treatment would think otherwise. – @dentona22

I mean, the regular man can see wid dem two eyes dem seh the health sector is in shambles. If Dr Dawes could stop the chatting and back his talk with numbers, then he’d be solid. – GerroKing

Comrades overload, almost like the comments are in chorus singing from the same hymnal. Look, we live here and some of us even before Dr Dawes was born, so we r much better able to do the comparison between administrations and honestly, there have been major improvements in recent years, way more than we have seen over decades b4. Is it enough? Clearly not, but Rome wasn’t built in a day and am seeing enough to believe the improvements will continue to take place! I really much prefer Dr Dawes in his out-of-politics capacity. – @marquis.01.876

Were more doctors added to the system or were their contracts just converted to permanent posts? Which means there’s no net change in number of doctors. I do agree that the NHF is the greatest feature of the public health system currently. What Dr Dawes has, that the minister doesn’t, is information on the ground from his colleagues going through the public health sector. The minister is relying on information from the administration of the region and ministry, which likely will have a lot gaps in it. – @hillsidechillin

Right... cause it’s so great. Let’s leave it as is. – @davallegrant

So apparently everything is all well and good in the health ministry KMT. I don’t eat unicorn meat. – @chanie.pie

Everytime d opposition talk unno sey dem mischievous! So tell us d truth then? – @stedsonteddy

So then release the results and stop the chatting bro! Why we keep talking and talking, just do the audit and move on ... the one bag a chatting! – @zaneleg3nd_

Disappointed in this rhetoric. To accept the proposed call for a reform would have scored points. To reject the recommendation is very telling. As a citizen, it tells me you are putting politics before the people. I was rooting for you Sir, but ratings slowly declining by the minute. SMH! – @khadineadaley

Reader’s reactions sourced from The Gleaner’s X, formerly Twitter, and Instagram pages. Compiled by Khanique McDaniel