NASSAU, The Bahamas - The Government of The Bahamas took another "significant" step in its ongoing heath systems strengthening initiative with the recent deployment of five Family Medicine Specialists (physicians) to key Family Islands.
The deployments ensure that the Government, through the Ministry of Health, the Department of Public Health and the Public Hospitals Authority, now has placed resident doctors on every inhabited island of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas - a first for the local public healthcare system.
The five physicians - Dr. Allen Cho (Berry Islands); Dr. Nicole Adderley (Exuma); Dr. Phyllis Darville (San Salvador); Dr. Keyasha Smith (Bimini) and Dr. Keith Rivers (Marsh Harbour, Abaco) are all graduates of the Family Medicine Residency Programe launched by the Public Hospitals Authority in 2012 as the first Post-Graduate Residency programme at the Princess Margaret Hospital.
Dr. Cho's presence in the Berry Islands along with Drs. Darville (San Salvador) and Dr. Smith (Bimini) also represents the first time those islands have a full-time physician (Resident Doctor) to conduct their medical affairs.
"One of the main goals of this programme (Post-Graduate Residency) was to improve the quality of, and access to, comprehensive and continuous family health services to the residents of The Bahamas," Minister of Health, the Hon. Dr. Michael Perry Gomez said Thursday.

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