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A campaign to raise $40 million for a down payment on the new hospital wing is still well short of its target — with the deadline for payment just two weeks away.
The Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) has to come up with the lump sum by June 14, two days...
DATE: Jun 02, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A women’s addiction therapy facility has been received its three-year approval from the Commission in Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) International.
Premier and National Security Minister Michael Dunkley said the Women’s Treatment C...
DATE: May 28, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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Department of Health officials last night met with home birth advocates in a bid to head off a “crisis” over what proponents of home birth have branded Government interference.
Chief Medical Officer Cheryl Peek-Ball said she was “optimistic” that loc...
DATE: May 28, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A dispute between home birth advocates and the Bermuda Medical Council continued yesterday after the Ministry of Health declared that the issue boils down to “safe versus unsafe birth conditions”.
Advocates have vowed to formally present Permanent Se...
DATE: May 23, 2014
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Health
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OIL Group of Companies (OIL) has donated $275,000 to Bermuda Hospitals Charitable Trust (BHCT).
The funds will go towards the ‘Why it Matters Campaign’ which aims to raise $40 million for the new Acute Care Wing at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
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DATE: May 22, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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A group of parents claim they are being prevented from having home births because of Bermuda Medical Council’s misinterpretation of a 65-year-old law.
The parents issued a press statement yesterday claiming they’d had the “rug pulled out from under t...
DATE: May 20, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Cafes and bakeries will be joining forces to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS by offering unique red coloured desserts throughout June.
Part proceeds from the sales of desserts — red being the symbolic colour for HIV/AIDS public awareness campaigns — will...
DATE: May 19, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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A rise in the number of patients requiring palliative care is increasing at such a rate that a new, purpose-built facility will be needed to care for a growing terminally ill people, it has been claimed.
Currently, Agape House is the only facility on...
DATE: May 12, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Sickle cell anaemia sufferer Juanita Adams cannot get a powerful painkiller
By Sam Strangeways
A grandmother who lives with “excruciating pain” due to sickle-cell disease has been told that the one drug which eases her suffering is being phased out ...
DATE: May 07, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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Bermuda joined countries around the world in celebrating the joy of breathing freely as the Island marked World Asthma Day.
More than 9,000 locals suffer from asthma, which Health Minister and asthma sufferer Trevor Moniz warned is a growing worldwid...
DATE: May 07, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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