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An unemployed security guard has been left reeling by an “unbelievable” bill of more than $16,000 for three days in hospital. The 28-year-old was left with no choice but to admit himself to the Emergency Department after he was stricken with pneumoni...

The Island is at a critical stage in addressing its healthcare needs and reform is vital to creating a more sustainable health system, according to Jeanne Atherden. But the Minister of Health, Seniors and Environment said changing Bermuda’s culture f...

More than 1,500 people were given a shot of the flu vaccine in just one week. The Flu Express hit the streets in October, offering injections of flu vaccine at sites across the Island. Now organisers have urged anyone who has not received their shot ...

The lower floor of the Hamilton Health Centre will open for all services tomorrow after its urgent maintenance problem was fixed. The clinic, on Victoria Street, has been closed for four days as a result of a noxious smell last Friday. In a statement...

The Hamilton Health Centre on Victoria Street is closed for this afternoon due to a “noxious smell” that is being investigated. While the child health clinic has been suspended, the government clinics in Warwick and St George’s are open for service ...

The waiting period for routine oral health services is now up to eight months, the Ministry of Health, Seniors and Environment has admitted. Ten days ago, Government dentists stopped accepting new patients, as two employees finished their list of ac...

Dear Sir, Kenneth Bascome is reported as having said that God is part-Bermudian because so often we have been spared the most destructive aspects of the storms. I would not be so presumptuous as to assume the reason for our past good fortune or what...

Harsher penalties for seniors abuse and stricter admission laws for carers are among the legislative and regulatory amendments being considered for recommendation by the newly named Ageing and Disability Services office. The Bermuda Government’s Nat...

Four new benefits and one improved benefit will be introduced for HIP and FutureCare policyholders tomorrow — but premiums will also go up for 2015-16. The Health Insurance Department today issued a reminder about the changes, stating that these “mar...

Dear Sir, There should be a protest march against this new piece of legislation that came at us seniors like a rocket out of the blue. How in the name of so-called compassion could a complete legislative body even, by a long shot, pass a draconian la...

Government dental services have been scaled back temporarily due to financial constraints, the Department of Health said yesterday. The Oral Health section of the Department provides dental health services for school-age children, special patients, ...

The three Government-funded dental clinics that subsidise services for children, seniors, prisoners and those with special needs has stopped taking on new patients amid staffing shortages. The Hamilton Health Centre told The Royal Gazette that its s...