The Jamaica Medical Mission 2025, implemented by the Jamaica Nurses Association of Florida, will be held for one week from July 20 until July 26, 2025.
The purpose is to provide essential medical care to underserved populations. Clinical activities will include physical assessment and screenings (diabetes testing, cholesterol, hypertension), treat some acute conditions such non systemic infections, give management recommendations for some chronic diseases, provide educational seminars to local healthcare professional, back-to-school screenings for students, provided limited pharmaceutical services, distribute health First AID kits and other donations to include durable medical equipment and critical care supplies. Our medical mission team will be working side by side with local health care professionals to share experience and best practice models.
As a board-certified internal medicine physician with more than 20 years of clinical experience, I will assist with medical consultations, diagnoses and treatment plan. I will contribute to health screenings, provide a plan of care for chronic diseases management, assist school kids with annual physicals, provide preventive health assessment and recommendations, provide educational training including for urgent care approach and management of some medical emergencies.
We will be serving underserved populations throughout the island of Jamaica including both in inner cities and in rural areas. Hundreds of patients will be served.
This population is targeted because they face multiple barriers to accessing quality healthcare services including economic barriers but also lack of medical infrastructures in their community.
This will make a huge difference in treating multiple medical conditions and to alleviate the burden of basic health care costs for vulnerables and needed populations that we will be targeting.
It will help save lives and promote preventive health. Working with local healthcare providers will allow for reproducible best practice protocols that can be replicated to benefit the needed populations.
The mission will inspire other healthcare providers to do similar work. Mission evaluation, debriefings and lessons learned will be shared with participants and other healthcare providers to help better plan for future missions.
The 2025 medical/humanitarian mission to Jamaica, organized by the Jamaican Nurses Association of Florida (JNAF), was an inspiring and successful experience.
The mission was held from July 21 to July 25, 2025, in both urban and rural Jamaica. There were nearly 60 participants who traveled from the United States, including physicians, nurses, CRNPs, and PAs. Many Jamaican professionals also volunteered their time and worked side by side with the mission team.
There were multiple sites of services in Jamaica. Two (2) full days were spent serving an urban and needy population in the Jamaican capital city of Kingston (Monday and Tuesday). The other three (3) days were spent in rural Jamaica: Wednesday in Clarendon, Thursday in Manchester, and Friday in St. Mary. The medical/humanitarian mission, which served all age groups, benefited thousands of people throughout the different sites on the island, either by providing medical care or humanitarian relief. All consultations, medications, relief goods, and supplies were provided free of charge.
The humanitarian aspect of the mission was significant and made a huge difference. Laptops, backpacks, and school supplies were donated to school kids, and many scholarships were awarded to deserving students. Needy families received food supplies to cover several days. Clothes and shoes were also donated to people in need.
The mission has made an enormous difference both from a clinical standpoint and a humanitarian standpoint. It is a model that can serve as a best practice example to reproduce when it comes to international medical/humanitarian missions.
Finally, I congratulate and thank the Jamaica Nurses Association of Florida for successfully planning and implementing such an impactful mission. I am also thankful to the participants and sponsors for their support of this exemplary mission.
