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A string of surgeries have been called off over the past year because of a shortage of beds at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. Fifty-four elective procedures had to be postponed from April 2020 through this month, some shortly before they were sch...

A total of three new coronavirus infections were recorded yesterday, the health ministry said last night. One was a returned resident on the American Airlines flight from Miami last Tuesday and who tested positive on their Day 8 test. The others were...

A suspect has been arrested in connection with a hit and run that left a 31-year-old woman with serious injuries. A police spokesman thanked the public for their help locating the suspect in the collision, which happened at the junction of Bishop Sp...

Police yesterday appealed for public help after a hit and run where a 31-year-old woman suffered serious injuries. A police spokesman said officers wanted to trace the driver of a silver Suzuki Swift car which was seen to hit the woman, stop, then dr...

The island’s soldiers continue to make a valuable contribution to the campaign against Covid-19. The Royal Bermuda Regiment has been stood down from embodiment after the lockdown was stopped. But troops are still acting as Covid-19 marshals and helpi...

The island’s two vaccination centres became scenes of “organised chaos” yesterday afternoon after scores of people responded to a plea for residents to get the jab at short notice. Government issued a public appeal saying it had a surplus of the vac...

A teenage stab victim was last night in “serious but stable condition” after he was knifed in the chest at Hamilton Bus Terminal. The 16-year-old boy is being treated in the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital’s intensive care unit after emergency surg...

A survey to canvass public opinion on the future of the Bermuda Hospitals Board was launched today. BHB management said the results would be used to help draw up its next five-year plan. Dr Michael Richmond, the chief executive and president of the B...

Procedural errors by police could have led to a human body part being removed and destroyed before officers arrived to seal off the area where it was found, a senior officer said today. The body part – believed to be a finger or toe – was discovered ...

The island’s second vaccination centre opened yesterday morning at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital’s former emergency room. The new centre, which had 150 appointments scheduled yesterday, can provide up to 200 vaccinations a day. It will boost ...

A former director of pathology at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital has died. Keith Cunningham, the hospital’s first Black staff doctor when he joined in 1970, was 86. Dr Cunningham dedicated his career to the development pathology in Bermuda. He al...

Hi-tech thermal detectors have been introduced in hospitals as part of a pilot programme to measure temperatures without contact with staff. The Bermuda Hospitals Board said two brands of monitor have been in use since Christmas Eve – two at the King...