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A subsidy hike for King Edward VII Memorial Hospital came as welcome news yesterday for the cash-strapped Bermuda Hospitals Board.
But rising costs — which Finance Minister Bob Richards in his Budget statement warned could bankrupt Government — have ...
DATE: Feb 22, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Soaring healthcare costs threaten to bankrupt Government unless the One Bermuda Alliance can put the brakes on “a runaway fast car”, Finance Minister Bob Richards said yesterday.
The Minister warned an ageing population is putting increasing demands ...
DATE: Feb 22, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
An insurance company has pledged to make sure a speech-impaired toddler gets the medical help she needs — after the child’s mother was made redundant twice in the past year.
Single mother Alvina Brangman had begun fundraising to ensure her two-year-o...
DATE: Feb 19, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
St David’s MP Lovitta Foggo has expressed concerns that the Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre is being set up to fail.
Government pledged to keep the St David’s facility open “until an acceptable and financially viable alternative arrangement is in place...
DATE: Feb 14, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) have introduced its mascot — Eddie the Elephant.
Named after King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, the elephant will be used to help educate the public on the departments’ move to the new Acute Care Wing in September.
Eddi...
DATE: Feb 14, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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Government is looking into complaints that the cost of generic drugs have increased in the wake of legislation aimed at reducing healthcare costs.
The Pharmacy and Poisons Amendment Bill 2013, approved in the House of Assembly last year, requires pha...
DATE: Feb 13, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
From a young age Nurse Practitioner Myrian Balitian-Dill may have been destined to go into medicine.
She always enjoyed helping people and got satisfaction in seeing them get back to good health. It didn’t hurt that she was also born into a large fa...
DATE: Feb 13, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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Government has kept quiet on plans to curtail high-cost diagnostic imaging — but the hospital has defended itself against claims by local physicians that it has been the main culprit for spiralling healthcare costs.
Pre-certification, which requires ...
DATE: Feb 10, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Naimah Frith may not be the only sufferer of Marfan syndrome in Bermuda — but she believes she is one of just a handful.
The 17-year-old was diagnosed with the life-threatening and rare disorder aged just two and has since had to grapple with a serie...
DATE: Feb 06, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
During childbirth, the birthing partner can be just as panicked as the woman giving birth.
“At my first birth my husband kept saying, ‘what do I do, what do I do’?” said mother-of-three Sophia Cannonier, a birth advocate and doula.
Luckily, a doula ...
DATE: Feb 04, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
