She started the first hair-loss clinic in Jamaica
AFTER BEATING depression over the loss of her hair, Dr Jennifer Mamby Alexander, admittedly, had put her experience behind her. However, when she saw other women experiencing what she had experienced, especially the hair loss, she was once again overcome by depression and the embarrassment of her own hair loss. When she started to speak about it, especially to women, she realised that they were reliving her experiences of hair loss. “When I began to speak about it, especially to women, they all said that they were frustrated with hair loss and had tried every method to regrow hair, including rubbing on honey, garlic, aloe vera, ginger, coconut oil, castor oil on their scalps and wished their hairdressers had a private room or booth in their parlours to attend to them,” she told The Gleaner. Hair loss in any form, in both sexes, seemed to be a matter of grave concern, Mamby Alexander and she began to feel that hair loss had become a silent epidemic in Jamaica.
She could not ignore this and felt compelled to help restore hair growth in both women and men who had experienced hair loss. She went on to get formal training in how to do this. She travelled overseas and returned home as soon as she was qualified. It still took her some time to start the hair clinic as she had exhausted her funds in the training programme.
Now, Jennifer Mamby Alexander has opened the first hair-loss clinic in Jamaica. Here, she provides patients, with a hair-restoration plan, which includes hair transplants. She then became a member of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery.
It was important for her to use her experience of loss and loneliness to help someone through their experience. She aims to continue to live by the motto of her Hair Loss Clinic of Jamaica, ‘Restore Your Hair, Restore Your Confidence’.