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The Ministry of Health launched its Bermuda Health Strategy 2022–2027 last month in a bid to make sure that everyone has access to essential, quality health services without suffering financial hardship. FIONA McWHIRTER takes a look at some of th...

The Government’s new quarantine policy for close and casual contacts in schools is “overly complex, discriminatory and coercive”, a parents’ pressure group has claimed. A spokeswoman for Us For Them Bermuda said: “Rather than a pragmatic policy on ho...

Women dealing with grief will be offered support from an art therapy group. Finding Solace was organised by Rhea Gibbons with the Women’s Resource Centre. A spokeswoman explained that the art therapy group would give “support for women as they naviga...

Cancer patients have been given a new high-precision non-surgical treatment option, the Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre announced. Chris Fosker, the BCHC medical director, said stereotactic ablative radiotherapy, also known as stereotactic body radi...

Covid-19 restrictions will be relaxed further from 6am today, health officials said last night. Large group sizes will be capped at 200 – up from 100 – and tables in restaurants, bars and clubs will not be limited to a maximum of ten people. The ann...

The mother of a schoolboy who suffered a severe brain injury in a car crash has highlighted March’s status as Brain Injury Awareness Month. Helen Cart said she planned to use the international commemoration month to promote brain injury prevention, a...

A campaign to boost knowledge about chronic kidney disease has been launched by the Bermuda Health Council. Doctors and other healthcare workers have joined the drive to mark National Kidney Month and World Kidney Day on March 10. The Bermuda Health ...

At least three classes at a private school were quarantined yesterday after a coronavirus outbreak. A Year 3 and two Year 4 classes were ordered to isolate at Saltus and a Year 11 class was ordered to follow casual contact precautions. Deryn Lavell, ...

Regulations for quarantine of Covid-19 contacts in schools have been changed, the education minister revealed yesterday. Diallo Rabain said in a letter to senior education staff that vaccinated people who tested positive for the coronavirus would hav...

The Bermuda Hospitals Charitable Foundation has thanked donors for $670,000 of support for the BHB’s Covid-19 vaccination clinic as the operation started to wind down. A spokeswoman said that the clinic, with the support of corporate and private dono...