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A new guidebook book to help identify children at risk from potential health and well-being problems has been launched in Bermuda.
The Child Development Programme (CDP) has spent the last two years getting the Red Flags Guidebook approved and into pr...
DATE: Mar 08, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Hazardous hospital waste is being blasted with heat so that it can be disposed of safely.
Hospital bosses announced that a macerator has been installed at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital — which sterilises potentially dangerous waste with an enviro...
DATE: Dec 11, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A pilot programme to improve the care of chronic disease patients through a “multi-disciplinary approach has got underway.
But to qualify for the programme patients must be uninsured — and also sign a “health contract” taking personal responsibility ...
DATE: Dec 05, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The number of patients needing dialysis treatment has tripled in the last ten years, according to the latest statistics.
And the 200 percent increase in patients needing the life-saving but costly treatment means that a “disproportionately high” numb...
DATE: Nov 26, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Government has overruled a decision by hospital bosses to shut down the Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre at the end of this month, saying the facility will now remain open “until an acceptable and financially viable alternative arrangement is in place”....
DATE: Nov 22, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Both Government and the Bermuda Hospitals Board have dismissed Opposition claims that the Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre has been making a surplus in recent months.
And Health Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin also claimed that the Opposition neglected...
DATE: Nov 22, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Government has overruled a decision by the Bermuda Hospitals Board to shut down the Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre at the end of this month.
At a press conference this afternoon Health Minister Patricia Gordon Pamplin said that the decision had been m...
DATE: Nov 21, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The One Bermuda Alliance must take responsibility for the controversial decision to shut down a healthcare centre — because members of the ruling party sit on the Bermuda Hospitals Board, it is claimed.
The BHB announced the shutdown of the Lamb Fogg...
DATE: Nov 07, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The hospital’s fleet of top-of-the-range ambulances is being scrapped after just four years of service because of continual mechanical faults.
And the Bermuda Hospitals Board has been forced to use a spare emergency vehicle provided by the St John’s ...
DATE: Oct 25, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Health officials have finally stepped in to rescue neighbours from a derelict home in Sandys that has become a breeding ground for rats and mosquitoes.
According to East Shore Drive residents a team of Environmental Health staff called in on the prop...
DATE: Oct 23, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
