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» redback - informed support

First off, I checked the Minister of Health's website:
http://www.moh.gov.jm/freeHealthCare.htm

The 'University Hospital of the West Indies' is NOT covered by the program according to the website. Is that the one he's in? So, if it's possible, maybe your cousin can still register for the program & be transferred to an eligible public paediatric hospital...if too late for surgery, for all follow-up care?

There is something about 'cancer' that can put us in a different mindset. There's an old cliche that cancer is a word not a sentence. I suspect privacy laws will stop you getting details about your cousin.

It's pretty easy to understand how overwhelming this can be for you and your family.

Did you know there is the Jamaica Cancer society? Here's a link:
http://www.jamaicacancersociety.org/page...

Let your family know about this society IF the hospital etc hasn't already told them. It seems possible they could answer some of your concerns too.

How's it all going?

-- posted by redback