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St. Andrade Sinclair, Regional Director, Western Regional Health Authority
Hospitals in western Jamaica are reportedly having challenges responding to an increasing number of patients requiring bed spaces due to social cases at the facilities.
Social cases refer to persons who have been discharged but continue to live at a hospital because they have not been claimed by relatives.
The Western Regional Health Authority is appealing to relatives to collect their family members who have been released from hospital care in St James, Trelawny, Hanover and Westmoreland.
It says the issue is severely affecting the public health response due to beds being taken up by these persons.
There are 100 social cases across the four parishes of the western region which has a total bed capacity of 731.
St. Andrade Sinclair, Regional Director of the WRHA, revealed that, as at Sunday, Cornwall Regional Hospital and Savanna-la-Mar Hospitals are both at 100 percent capacity.
He said 67 beds are taken up by patients who have been officially released.
The WRHA says 32 social cases have been relocated to the Falmouth Infirmary while the other 68 beds remain occupied by these individuals.
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