MONTEGO BAY, St James:

Health services in the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) are back to normal.

While no major problems were reported during the passage of Gustav, enactment of an emergency operation plan throughout the region resulted in some temporary operational changes at hospitals and health centres in the four WRHA-administered parishes of Trelawny, St James, Hanover and Westmoreland.

The public health departments also carried out inspection of designated shelters.

Meanwhile, chief executive officer at Cornwall Regional Hospital, Everton Anderson, said outpatients who were given new appointments for surgery and clinics should keep to those schedules. He is also asking persons who did not receive appointments to call the Medical Records Office to get their appointments.

Acting WRHA regional director, Dr Alexander Konstantinov, said yesterday that services at the Cornwall Regional, Savanna-la-Mar, Falmouth and Noel Holmes hospitals, as well as health centres across the region, were back.

Konstantinov has extended commendation to "the entire health team for the tremendous efforts in planning and executing the disaster preparedness activities relating to the passage of Tropical Storm Gustav".