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Kenya Ends Arrangement To Swap Doctors With Cuba
Kenya Ends Arrangement To Swap Doctors With Cuba
KENYA - Kenya's government announced Wednesday it would not be renewing a six-year-old deal that saw Cuban doctors employed in Kenya while those from the east African country travelled to Cuba for specialized training.
Doctors Hospital: Practical steps can improve Family Island healthcare
Doctors Hospital CEO Dr. Charles Diggiss said there are practical steps that can be taken to improve health outcomes on Family Islands that lack physical resources. His comments came weeks after a car accident on Long Island claimed the lives of three young men - Mandie Constantakis Jr., Manoli Constantakis and Trevon Roxbury. Manoli Constantakis, ...
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Two doctors join PMH ranks
Two doctors join PMH ranks
PRINCESS Margaret Hospital announced that two doctors, Dr Rhea Thurston-Carroll and Dr Nicholas Burrowes, have joined its ranks as consultant physicians in the nephrology and neurosurgery services respectively.
Bahamian software company develops custom COVID-19 testing portal for Doctors Hospital
On March 3, Doctors Hospital launched their new COVID-19 Testing Portal, a custom app designed by Bahamian software development firm Plato Alpha. The new portal centralizes test scheduling, payment, and patient history in one seamless platform.
"This new software will help us increase efficiencies by automating many of our back-office operational tasks," said Doctors Hospital Results Manager Sh...
UPDATED: Governor General remains in Doctors Hospital under observation
FRIDAY AFTERNOON UPDATE: Government press secretary Clint Watson said the Governor General remains in Doctors Hospital under observation by his medical team. He continues to rest comfortably.
Doctors Hospital secures financing to construct new hospital in Grand Bahama
NASSAU, BAHAMAS — Doctors Hospital Health System Limited ("DHHS") is aiming to revolutionize healthcare services on the island of Grand Bahama with plans to build a new hospital. Construction is scheduled to be completed in the fall of 2024 and is expected to significantly improve access to medical care for residents on the island. Offering [...]
UK Faces Double Doctors Strike
UK Faces Double Doctors Strike
ENGLAND - Consultants and junior doctors in England are staging their first joint strike in the history of the Britains national health services.
Doctors to pay $50k to employee injured on job
Doctors to pay $50k to employee injured on job
DOCTORS Hospital must pay $47,146 in damages to a former employee who was injured after trying to lift a 230lb patient onto a 60lb stretcher and into an ambulance.
Doctors targets 50/50 medical tourism split
Doctors targets 50/50 medical tourism split
By NEIL HARTNELL
Tribune Business Editor
DOCTORS Hospital is aiming to grow and diversify its business mix into an ultimate 50/50 split between its current core and medical tourism, its president telling Tribune Business that moving into the latter area would enable it to "not worry about profitability" following a year when local patient activity dropped off by 25 per cent.
With the BISX-liste...
Doctors Hospital Fund-raiser Benefits Unity House
Doctors Hospital Fund-raiser Benefits Unity House
Nassau, Bahamas - Just
before the holidays each year, the Social Committee at Doctors
Hospital makes a decision on which deserving charity within the
Bahamian community will receive the proceeds of the committee's Holiday
fund-raising efforts. Fortunately for Unity House, a nonprofit
organization that cares for the...