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An ambulance in the east end would be more valuable than the Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre, according to St George’s MP Kenneth Bascome. Mr Bascome said the arguments surrounding the future of the facility had become more about politics than the well...

The future of a closure-threatened urgent care centre in the east of the Island has been guaranteed for a year. Health Minister Trevor Moniz told MPs the Lamb Foggo clinic in St David’s would stay open until “at least March 2015.” Mr Moniz said: “Thi...

Dear Sir, I had a good laugh this morning when I heard Zane DeSilva holding forth about the importance of public opinion in the matter of closing clinics. I do not remember hearing much from him when the PLP closed the urgent care clinic at the hospi...

Dear Sir, If BHB is losing money from UCC, where are they getting the money to pay for the new wing of the hospital at KEMH? Don’t you think it’s odd that a building that’s been there for years on end would obviously not cost as much as a building th...

Health Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin has refuted claims she misled the public about the Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre, maintaining that the facility was not profitable. Shadow Health Minister Zane DeSilva alleged a $104,000 surplus in the 2012/13 ...

Marchers who descended on the House of Assembly in a bid to save the closure-threatened Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre in the east end said the service was a vital part of the community. Raine Burgess, 35, an insurance broker from the area, said: “I h...

Government’s about-face on the closure of the Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre drew recrimination as well as congratulation in yesterday’s Parliamentary debates. The possible privatisation of the facility sparked accusations of “union busting” from Oppo...

Government has overruled a decision by hospital bosses to shut down the Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre at the end of this month, saying the facility will now remain open “until an acceptable and financially viable alternative arrangement is in place”....

November 21, 2013 Dear Sir, Which is better for a senior citizen in need of special treatment in St George’s or St David’s: 1. A simple five minute drive in an ambulance to a care centre nearby? 2. A long 20 minute drive in an ambulance to Point Fing...

Both Government and the Bermuda Hospitals Board have dismissed Opposition claims that the Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre has been making a surplus in recent months. And Health Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin also claimed that the Opposition neglected...