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The Bermuda International Eye Institute Ltd will be hosting their fifth annual ‘Patch Party’ at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute for children suffering from various eye conditions.
The event was originally designed as a reward for childre...
DATE: Dec 14, 2013
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Health
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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
Government is considering rules which would require precertification before medical diagnostic procedures are performed in an effort to reduce unnecessary tests.
Health Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin said Government was currently in the consultatio...
DATE: Dec 02, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The salaries of hospital officials, which the One Bermuda Alliance pledged to make public, will not be released until hospital financial statements have been audited.
Responding to Parliamentary questions by Opposition MP Lovitta Foggo, Health Minist...
DATE: Dec 02, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A woman left waiting for weeks to obtain medicine for her son’s schizophrenia has had her prescription filled — with an apology from the Bermuda Hospitals Board.
The single mother, who is caregiver for her 26-year-old son, said she resorted to contac...
DATE: Nov 27, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The harsh realities facing Bermuda’s most vulnerable populations — children and seniors due to economic hard times — dominated discussion at the Well Bermuda Annual Meeting.
The meeting’s theme this year stressed the importance of collaboration betwe...
DATE: Nov 26, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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A woman whose schizophrenic son has been left without his full course of medication is complaining that she’s receiving the silent treatment from the Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB).
“It’s not fair to him — and I can’t understand why I can’t get an exp...
DATE: Nov 26, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
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
The Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre is offering biopsies to detect prostate cancer in men — thanks to almost $300,000 raised in donations since 2010 by its Movember campaign.
One of the most common male cancers, prostate cancer, can only be detected...
DATE: Nov 26, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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