JAMAICA HOUSE last night released medical records of Prime Minister P.J. Patterson indicating that he is in good health and capable of adequately carrying out campaign duties.

"There is currently no basis for curtailing any of his activities on grounds of ill health," the Prime Minister's personal physician, Dr. K. Orrin Barrow, said in a general statement of September 25.

Dr. Barrow indicated that Mr. Patterson has been under "anti-hypertensive therapy" since 2000 following tests carried out in May of that year.

"Blood pressure readings throughout the time I have been seeing Mr. Patterson have been within normal limits," he stated.

Dr. Barrow has been Mr. Patterson's personal doctor since 1979, during which time "Mr. Patterson has enjoyed excellent health... apart from two occasions in 1993 and 2001."

The Prime Minister fainted on both occasions and subsequent tests came back normal with the fainting episodes blamed on a sudden dip in blood pressure. Mr. Patterson was advised by a consultant neurologist to avoid prolonged standing, hot environments, hot baths, poor leg muscle tone, dehydration, beta-blockers and diuretics in order to reduce the chances of more fainting episodes.

"I last saw him on September 24, 2002, at which time he was well," Dr. Barrow concluded.