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Meet Jane Heggie, Senior Medical Officer with the Canadian Red Cross on the ground in Jamaica. Jane shares how our emergency medical clinic team is supporting healthcare services and providing vital health expertise, medical supplies, and mental health and psychosocial support materials to people impacted by Hurricane Melissa. This support is in collaboration with local partners in Jamaica, the Jamaica Red Cross and Red Cross Red Crescent Movement partners coordinated by the International Federa

The Jamaica Red Cross, supported by Red Cross Red Crescent Movement partners coordinated by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, is hard at work in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa. Red Cross teams are cleaning up the Petersfield Health Centre in western Jamaica, an area that was severely impacted by the storm. A Canadian Red Cross emergency medical clinic is being mobilized to Jamaica with a multidisciplinary team of Red Cross humanitarian experts already on t