14 results returned for search: "education AND " category "Health" author Sam Strangeways
The Appeal Court found that a decision to impose self-administered, supervised saliva tests to limit the spread of the virus in public schools was legal
DATE: Mar 28, 2023
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Fewer than 40 per cent of staff in long-term care centres have full immunisation against Covid-19, health ministry estimates have revealed.
The ministry, in response to a public access to information request from The Royal Gazette, said an estimated...
DATE: Jun 16, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Health officials have updated a list of summer camps approved for “Covid-19 compliance”.
The Ministry of Health list had 29 camps on it yesterday and 51 today.
Public schools finish for the summer break on June 29 and most private schools will start...
DATE: Jun 16, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Venetta Symonds started full-time work for the Bermuda Hospitals Board 40 years ago today as one of the first black radiographers at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
Her ambition back then was not to become chief executive officer of the entire...
DATE: Jul 14, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The acting chief executive of Bermuda’s healthcare watchdog set up a company with a top executive from the US-based Lahey Clinic but “immediately terminated” the arrangement because of a potential conflict of interest, it has been revealed.
Ricky Bra...
DATE: Feb 08, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A Bermuda College course launched in 2012 to address a shortage of nurses on the island has yet to produce a single qualified nurse.
Seventeen students have so far graduated from the college’s Nursing Pathways Programme with an Associate Degree in Sc...
DATE: Jul 27, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Hospital authorities have revealed information about 13 adverse events in the past five years which, in some cases, led to the death or permanent injury of patients.
The Bermuda Hospitals Board disclosed the information in response to a public access...
DATE: Jan 04, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Althea Overbey thought she had experienced a miracle after surviving risky surgery to remove a brain tumour just a few months after her son was born in 1985.
Now, 30 years later, she is convinced she has benefited from another divine intervention.
Ms...
DATE: Oct 09, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The Department of Health has moved to allay fears that its free fluoride supplement programme for children could be axed.
Two sources, neither of whom would be named, told The Royal Gazette that the cost of the scheme came up at a recent meeting of h...
DATE: Aug 21, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
An insurance company has pledged to make sure a speech-impaired toddler gets the medical help she needs — after the child’s mother was made redundant twice in the past year.
Single mother Alvina Brangman had begun fundraising to ensure her two-year-o...
DATE: Feb 19, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways