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A donation of $100,000 by the Kitson Group has pushed the fundraising campaign for Bermuda’s new hospital wing to the $30 million mark. Brothers Kirk and Richard Kitson handed over the cheque to Bermuda Hospitals Board chairman Jonathan Brewin to mar...

A Government move to bring in “pre-certification” — requiring doctors to get a second opinion when ordering diagnostic tests — has been poorly received across the Island’s medical community. However, according to the Bermuda Medical Doctors’ Associat...

Residents near the Mid Atlantic Wellness Institute are still complaining of foul smells in the area, almost two months after the problem was supposed to have been remedied. The odours, emanating from the MAWI waste treatment facility, should have dis...

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...

Hospital chiefs raised a number of legal challenges during a police investigation into the death of popular bar owner Hubert Brown, it has been claimed. Mr Brown, who ran Hubie’s Bar on Angle Street, died at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital in Decem...

Bermuda Hospitals Board thanked the Kiwanis Club of Hamilton, the Kiwanis Club of St George’s and the Kiwanis Foundation of New England & Bermuda District for a donation of $5,000. The money will be used to buy emergency equipment, for furniture and ...

Bar owner Hubert (Hubie) Brown died after being given an unnecessary transfusion of the wrong blood type at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, according to his brother-in-law. And yesterday Danis Moore criticised Bermuda Hospitals Board for hiring la...

Hospital bosses are trying to stop an inquest being held into the death of bar owner Hubert (Hubie) Brown. Mr Brown, who ran Hubie’s bar and jazz club on Angle Street, died aged 66 in December 2002 at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. Senior Coroner...

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...

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...

Dear Sir, I had a good laugh this morning when I heard Zane DeSilva holding forth about the importance of public opinion in the matter of closing clinics. I do not remember hearing much from him when the PLP closed the urgent care clinic at the hospi...