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Dear Sir, I am most grateful to the Good Samaritans who assisted me on August 28, when I sustained injuries from a fall in the parking lot of Lindo’s Family Foods in Warwick. So many people rushed to help — shoppers near by, as well as members of st...

Medical staff and students will be in line for training opportunities after the Bermuda Hospitals Board agreed to link up with Johns Hopkins Medicine International. The BHB announced the Maryland-based medical institute was chosen for a clinical affi...

A new addition to Bermuda Hospitals Board’s cancer care staff will bring decades of experience to Bermuda. Christopher Price was named as the new consultant medical oncologist by BHB this afternoon. The addition of Dr Price brings the number of ful...

Dear Sir, I am writing to you in response to Christa Fubler’s Letter to the Editor dated July 18, regarding her experience at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital’s maternity ward. While I sympathise with Ms Fubler’s experience and give her and her chil...

Bermuda could become a centre for specialist colon removal surgery, a surgeon at the Bermuda Hospitals Board has said. Fitzroy Hamilton said results in Bermuda were better than those of top European clinics that use single-incision laparoscopic surg...

Dear Sir, I am writing to highlight my experience on the maternity ward at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. Little more than a year ago, I became a first-time mother to my baby boy. After a long labour, which resulted in an unplanned Caesarean sec...

Jeanne Atherden, the Leader of the Opposition, has called on David Burt to release “an unredacted version of the deal to build a new hospital wing”. The challenge was raised by Ms Atherden on Friday, during the inaugural Premier’s question time segme...

The island’s general hospital logged 430 incidents that resulted in harm to patients over less than five years, Bermuda Hospitals Board statistics have revealed. Of those, 28 fell into the three most serious categories of harm — 14 patients died unex...

“I” events: 18 Definition: event or error that contributed to or resulted in unexpected death 2 CPR in the emergency department 3 CPR in surgery 2 review of death in emergency department 1 terminal patient died while in surgery 1 lack of communica...

Dear Sir, As I just spent more than a week in our hospital, I feel qualified to comment on a couple of problem areas that, if addressed, can only improve patients’ wellbeing. Why are there not enough blood-pressure monitors so that each room has one?...

A man who had to be extricated from underneath a car after a crash in Paget last night was today recovering in hospital. A police spokesman said the motorcyclist was hurt in the collision on Point Finger Road about 10.15pm but his injuries were not l...

Police are appealing for witnesses after a motorcyclist struck a wall near Somerset Bridge in Sandys. A police spokesman said the rider was treated in hospital and later arrested on suspicion of impaired driving. He added that the 54-year-old Warwick...