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Members of staff from Scotiabank’s Highgate branch donated $700,000 worth of nursing scrubs to the Port Maria and Annotto Bay hospitals on Thursday July 8, 2010. The Scotiabank team was responding to an appeal from the North East Regional Health Authority for a donation of apparel to be worn by the operating and nursing teams. The facilities have been experiencing a shortage for the several months and this has hampered their effective delivery of health care.

Novlette Bolton, Scotiabank volunteer and team leader for the branch’s bright future project, which focuses on community and children outreach, led the initiative to provide the hospitals with the supplies. “When we got the request from Dr. Isaac Brown, Manager of the North East Regional Health Authority, we quickly thought of a way in which we could help them meet their needs and assist them in improving their efficiency at the hospitals. The Scotiabank Highgate team partnered with three nurses in Canada and they managed to raise over seven hundred thousand Jamaican dollars (700,000JMD) worth of nursing scrubs by means of a nursing scrub drive. The scrubs were then shipped to Jamaica and presented to the hospital.”

Scotiabank has been playing a vital role in the delivery of quality health care across Jamaica mainly through the Scotiabank Jamaica Foundation. The Foundation currently maintains accident and emergency units in the Port Antonio Hospital, University Hospital of the West Indies and the Spanish Town Hospital. The Foundation also funds renal, scoliosis and cancer care for Jamaicans who not able to access or afford the medial attention they need.

The Bank is also involved in several other community outreach programmes including environmental, educational and senior citizen care in the many communities in which it has a presence.