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The chief of staff of Bermuda’s hospitals system warned yesterday the public was running out of time to protect themselves from the worst effects of Covid-19 as a fresh wave of infections swept the island. Wesley Miller, who has the most senior medic...

Doctors revealed last night that a second “satellite” intensive care unit had been opened at the hospital in preparation for a likely surge in Covid-19 cases. Michael Richmond, the chief executive of the Bermuda Hospitals Board, said he was “confiden...

An overflow intensive care unit is to be pressed into service as the hospital braces itself for a surge in Covid-19 cases, it emerged tonight. The King Edward VII Memorial Hospital and the Mid Atlantic Wellness Institute will also introduce visiting ...

A shortage of hospital beds has continued to cause delays to non-essential operations – and some patients said they were upset about the lack of notice for postponements. A patient told The Royal Gazette that she had been scheduled for surgery on Aug...

The Delta variant of Covid-19 is well and truly in Bermuda now. Last night, the health ministry reported that 92 people had Covid-19, up from just 19 a mere three weeks ago. Of those 92 cases, the vast majority are the Delta variant, which is more i...

Growing up on Cox’s Hill, Pembroke, Wilma Frith longed to become a nurse. “When I was playing with my dolls, they were always my patients,” the 85-year-old remembered. But she had to wait a long time to see her dream become reality. After high scho...

A man has suffered life-threatening injuries after he crashed into a road sign late on Saturday night. A police spokesman said that officers responded to reports of a serious single-vehicle traffic collision on Crow Lane in Pembroke shortly before 11...

Staff have returned to the General Wing at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital after it was evacuated for an hour yesterday afternoon. Inpatients did not have to leave the building. A Bermuda Hospitals Board spokeswoman said there had been a thorough c...

A nurse who fought for change when racial segregation frustrated the careers of Black Bermudian medical professionals has been warmly recalled by MPs and senators. The family of Sandra Allen said she stood as a mentor to generations of nurses. Her ob...

Student hospital volunteers planning to go to university to pursue careers in health have received a financial boost from the Hospitals Auxiliary of Bermuda. The HAB has presented scholarships to senior candystriper volunteers who are going to univer...

A former nurse’s aide convicted of senior abuse after she hurled a bottle at a senior suffering from dementia has lost an appeal against conviction. While Rose Belboda accepted that she had thrown an air freshener bottle at a 72-year-old patient at K...

Hospital staff will get free admission to an online conference on breast and ovarian cancer coming today. The Pink and Teal virtual conference will showcase “leading specialists on the latest and cutting edge advances on the treatment and prevention ...