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Mental health services will see a boost in funding, the health minister assured yesterday.
Kim Wilson said that the cash injection, which was announced in July as part of a $15 million relief package, would help to meet the demand for more treatment ...
DATE: Oct 11, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Overweight people not controlling what they eat are responsible for Bermuda’s health outcomes failing to match its high expenditure on medical care, MPs heard.
Kim Wilson, the health minister, told the House of Assembly on Friday that the problem was...
DATE: Oct 10, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
New aquatic therapies for people with intellectual disabilities were highlighted at a recent celebration at Clearwater Beach.
Bermuda Hospitals Board’s Community Intellectual Disability Team highlighted the therapies at its recent Exceptional Fall BB...
DATE: Oct 10, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Vision Bermuda, a charity dedicated to helping the island’s blind and visually impaired, is calling for everyone to get their eyes tested to show support for World Sight Day on October 13.
Theresa Hall, the charity’s executive director, said: “With ...
DATE: Oct 10, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Stefano Ausenda
Parliamentarians approved the final extension of Covid-19 public health emergency measures.
Public Health (Covid-19) Emergency Extension (No 1) Order 2022, which extends the measures until November 30, was passed in the House last night with no obje...
DATE: Oct 08, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
More than 90 per cent of food service businesses were ranked in the top two levels of a grading system for hygiene and health standards after checks by environmental health officials.
Figures showed that 129 restaurants, cafés and takeaways score...
DATE: Oct 06, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Bermuda’s confirmed active cases of Covid-19 have nearly doubled in the past week, health officials revealed yesterday – with 75 cases, including one person being treated in hospital.
Kim Wilson, the health minister, also listed the easing of a strin...
DATE: Oct 06, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The majority of breast cancer cases on the island within the past three years have affected Black women, according to the Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre.
The statistic was revealed as the BCHC said it wanted to raise $200,000 this month – Breast Ca...
DATE: Oct 03, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Stefano Ausenda
A former drug addict who has been sober for 25 years yesterday challenged young men struggling with addiction to look into a mirror and imagine what they looked like – physically, emotionally and spiritually, before drugs had taken over their lives. ...
DATE: Oct 01, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Stefano Ausenda
An online portal will be launched today for health professionals to pay registration application fees.
The Bermuda Health Council announced its move to the new system yesterday.
It said: “The online payment portal allows regulated health professiona...
DATE: Oct 01, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
