NovaMed donates $60m worth of face masks to protect Jamaican workforce – Partners with CVSS

As the Jamaican economy reopens for business, NovaMed, a locally based medical resource supplier, is donating half-a-million medical grade face masks valued at approximately $60 million to protect the Jamaican and Caribbean workforce from COVID-19.

The start-up firm founded by Dr David Walcott and entrepreneur, Kirk-Anthony Hamilton, recently solidified its impact in the medical mask production business with the purchase of a mask production line in China.

The first shipment from that line is expected to arrive on the island later this month. Dr Walcott, an Oxford-trained immunologist and entrepreneur with experience appraising health sectors in over 50 countries, disclosed that the donated masks would be distributed locally to members of the public, civil institutions and select front line personnel directly and via the Council of Voluntary Social Services (CVSS). Read more…