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A Government programme to send behaviourally challenged students overseas for treatment has seen its funding restored. Youth Minister Glenn Blakeney said the Psycho-Educational Programme would see its budget restored to $3.12 million for the coming f...

Only a fraction of the Government funds set aside to overhaul the ageing Lefroy House seniors facility has actually been spent, according to Health Minister Zane DeSilva. Mr DeSilva gave a breakdown of spending in response to criticism from members o...

A husband angry at the treatment his sick wife received at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital has formed a group for other dissatisfied patients and relatives. Allan DeSilva, 77, says more than 25 people have agreed to join his committee, which is cal...

Allan DeSilva claims his wife Silvia came out of King Edward VII Memorial Hospital at the end of last year with problems she hadn’t gone in with. Mrs DeSilva, 71, is diabetic and was admitted for pain management in August. According to her husband, s...

Four years ago, Raymond Evans began suffering from a “gagging feeling” which was so bad that he took himself to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital’s emergency room. “They said there was nothing wrong,” said the 62-year-old. “I left. I told myself it w...

John Pacheco's complaint dates back to September 2007, when he says he suffered kidney failure during a stay at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. The 53-year-old, who has had both legs and seven fingers amputated due to poor circulation caused by hi...

The 22 nine-year-olds in Laurel Burgess’ class at Saltus Grammar have some idea of how cancer can take a person’s life and leave others grieving. Ms Burgess said she’s been clear and candid with her students about the disease and particularly so thi...

Some people keep framed photos on their desk; Venetta Symonds keeps pieces of rusty pipe. The pipes come from the current hospital site and are a keen reminder of why the new hospital is so necessary. “Probably about ten years ago someone came to me...

Yesterday’s story about the visit of Ryan Miller to see the home of Dakarai Tucker restores faith in mankind, even when we are facing difficult times. Dakarai Tucker died four years ago at the age of 15, two weeks after suffering a brain aneurysm. ...