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A residential home criticised by Derrick Burgess, the Shadow Minister for Seniors, has hit back at his claims of inadequate standards — while staff at a second facility named by the Opposition politician say a community-wide effort is needed to ensur...
DATE: Jan 09, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Families are being stopped from moving their elderly relatives to different residential homes from facilities that they are unhappy with, it has been alleged.
The daughter of an 89-year-old woman claims that she and her siblings have been blocked fro...
DATE: Jan 08, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A residential home for seniors in Paget is at the centre of three separate alleged cases of neglect.
Sunny Vale Rest Home on St Michael’s Road claims that it offers “outstanding” care to the elderly, but one former resident told The Royal Gazette tha...
DATE: Jan 07, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
An 81-year-old man suffering from “severe” bedsores was “rescued” by concerned members of the public from a rest home that could not care for him properly — after the National Office for Seniors and the Physically Challenged (NOSPC) failed to find hi...
DATE: Jan 07, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The brother of a 76-year-old woman who is allegedly being neglected in her own home by relatives claims that he has been repeatedly ignored when he has tried to report the matter to the authorities.
Mr A told The Royal Gazette that his sibling, who i...
DATE: Jan 06, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Bermuda’s seniors are receiving “deplorable” care in residential facilities and private homes across the Island yet the authorities are failing to act, it has been alleged.
An investigation by The Royal Gazette has uncovered a number of cases where e...
DATE: Jan 05, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Families are being stopped from moving their elderly relatives to different residential homes from facilities that they are unhappy with, it has been alleged.
The daughter of an 89-year-old woman claims that she and her siblings have been blocked fro...
DATE: Jan 05, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A baby girl whom doctors believe was made seriously sick by contaminated water in Bermuda is unlikely to suffer any long-term ill effects, according to her parents.
The thankful couple, who asked not to be named, told The Royal Gazette that they fear...
DATE: Nov 05, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A patient who suffered an agonising wait for surgery at the Island’s only hospital is being taken to the Privy Council by those he successfully sued for damages.
Bermuda Hospitals Board has opted to go to the Island’s highest court of appeal, in Lond...
DATE: Sep 05, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The Department of Health has moved to allay fears that its free fluoride supplement programme for children could be axed.
Two sources, neither of whom would be named, told The Royal Gazette that the cost of the scheme came up at a recent meeting of h...
DATE: Aug 21, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
