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Former Health Minister Zane DeSilva has said that the Progressive Labour Party never pretended the hospital did not have its share of problems. However, he said the facility made forward progress during the party’s time in power. “The hospital is a v...

Health Minister Patricia Gordon Pamplin has slammed her predecessor Zane DeSilva, for “defending the indefensible” during his two-year stint at the helm of the Ministry. And she also attacked the former Chief of Staff at King Edward VII Memorial, say...

Parliamentarians could be in for a long night when the state of the Island’s hospitals is debated in the House of Assembly during today’s session. Health Minister Patricia Gordon Pamplin has put forward a take note motion on a review of the Bermuda H...

Shadow Health Minister Zane DeSilva has issued a robust defence of the running of Bermuda’s hospitals under his watch. Mr DeSilva, who was Health Minister between November 2010 and December 2012, spoke out after the Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) reve...

The public has been given a sneak peek at the new building at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital this week as a section of the protective mesh around the construction site was removed. Work on the $247 million project is ongoing, and the building ...

Some doctors employed at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital were “significantly overpaid” and even given bonuses after negotiating contracts with former hospital Chief of Staff Donald Thomas, according to the new Bermuda Hospitals Board. And the findi...

The new Bermuda Hospitals Board is undertaking a series of “corrective actions” to strengthen governance and ensure that certain “situations are not repeated”. And health chiefs have also pledged to be more transparent and accountable to the general ...

British administrator David Hill was the man at the helm of BHB for much of the period during which management decisions at the hospital are now being questioned. But critics have questioned which senior executives had the final say in policy decisio...

Donald Thomas III was hired as King Edward VII Memorial Hospital’s highly paid chief of staff without thorough checks being made into his background, according to the new Bermuda Hospitals Board. BHB chairman Jonathan Brewin told Health Minister Patr...

The Island’s hospitals are facing a cash crisis that could see the Bermuda Hospitals Board go into debt within the year, according to health chiefs. And while an increased “utilisation” of health services is partially to blame for the Island’s skyroc...