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JDF
Administrative Unit (JDF AU)
The JDF AU comprises ten departments which deal mainly with
clerical, dental, finance, medical, music, quartering and records.
JAMAICA DEFENCE FORCE MEDICAL RECEPTION STATION
By Corporal Joseph A. Lewis

Captain
Juliet Lee-Valme ( now Major) of the JDF Dental Center, JDF MRS, doing
what she does
best - taking care of patients’ teeth.
The Jamaica Defence Force Medical Station (MRS) offers a wide
range of services to soldiers and their families. For more than three decades
the JDF MRS is providing exemplary service to soldiers and there families.
Some of the services they provide include counselling, family
planning, public health and rehabilitation program.
The centre also provides a full medical and dental plan for
officers and soldiers of the regular Force and their families, and to members of
the National Reserve while on training or Call Out.
Families of members of the Reserve Force are entitled to
medical and dental treatment under the plan while such members are on permanent
call out.
Expenses for treatment under this plan are met from public
funds.
In order to help the staff at the medical centre provide a
better service, soldiers need to adopt some preventative method to prevent
illness. They can help by reporting early to the centre when sick and having
their families’ card properly updated.
Although the centre tries to provide quality service, the
sub-unit is faced with problems from time to time; one such problem is the lack
of equipment. In the interim, as the sub-unit upgrade its services, soldiers can
help by attending sick parades early when they report sick. This will allow
the medical staff to prepare their documents so that they can be treated
promptly.

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