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A former top nurse appointed a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire 20 years ago for her contribution to healthcare has died. Jacqueline Lightbourne, the island’s first Chief Nursing Officer, was 84. Ms Lightbourne started at the ...

Dear Sir, I am encouraged by our community effort to contain the Covid-19 virus. The threat will continue to be with us, but the way our community has shown such solidarity with social-distancing and mask-wearing is a real testament to who we are. D...

The health ministry’s Covid-19 hotline is back in service, it was revealed this afternoon. The line and the rest of the telephone network at the ministry’s headquarters were out of order earlier today. A spokeswoman for the ministry said that technic...

The Bermuda Hospitals Board’s Chief of Staff will be its next chief executive and president, it was announced yesterday. Michael Richmond will take over the job from Venetta Symonds as she takes early retirement this month after eight years in the po...

Bermuda’s health providers will next month update how they classify medical problems to help provide better coverage. The Bermuda Health Council announced this morning it would shift its medical diagnostic coding system from ICD-9 to ICD-10, which it...

The laboratory where Bermuda’s first on-island Covid-19 testing was carried out is expected to have its government contract changed. Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, said that the arrangement with Helix Genetic and Scientific Solutions would be “r...

The health system could be “overwhelmed” if the public fails to follow quarantine and isolation rules, the Bermuda Hospitals Board’s chief of staff warned today. Michael Richmond said that the BHB backed “decisive action” by the Government to limit ...

A special Covid-19 hotline has taken more than 100 calls since it opened yesterday. The news came as Kim Wilson, the health minister, toured the call centre and met its seven phone operators today. Ms Wilson said: “I was grateful to be able to meet t...

Extra supplies of hand sanitiser are to be imported and handed out free of charge, the Government said last night. The move came as the island braced itself for the possible arrival of the potential killer coronavirus strain Covid-19. Kim Wilson, the...

Much of the world remains in the grip of confusion and fear over the coronavirus that has caused near panic in many countries, as world health officials scramble to cope with a health crisis, that at the moment threatens all who inhabit this planet. ...

The following represents the key points as delivered by the author at the annual meeting of the Inter-Agency Committee for Children and Families The training committee of the IAC has brought forward a theme for the year that is near and dear to all ...

The acting chief executive of the Bermuda Health Council has been appointed to the role on a permanent basis. Ricky Brathwaite, who has held the top job at BHeC since the controversial dismissal of Tamara Wedderburn in December 2018, was confirmed in...