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Healthcare synergies
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August 04, 2018
Healthcare synergies

Dear Editor, Science and technology are advancing human health. From birth to death, conception to demise, data records and modern technology are providing essential intelligence to better every condition of life. With growing knowledge of DNA, RNA and protein-forming genes (the base of all life), [...]
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August 07, 2018
HEALinc Future Health Innovation Summit: creative learning in healthcare

HEAlinc Future Health Innovation Summit will bring together the finest minds currently working in digital health, regenerative medicine, cellular therapy and precision health. The summit will also introduce participants to new approaches to designing, promoting and paying for future health innovations, and will offer an [...]
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June 20, 2018
Komolafe: Increased VAT in healthcare will undermine efforts to address fiscal imbalance

Bahamas Insurance Association (BIA) Chairman Emmanuel Komolafe said government's move to increase VAT from 7.5 percent to 12 percent will mean an increase in all medical services in the private healthcare system, push people toward the public health system and create another strain on the government's resources. [...]
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May 09, 2018
39Neutral to poor39 rating for govt on healthcare

THE Minnis administration's performance after a year in power has been "neutral to poor," according to one local physician, who said nothing has changed in the country's healthcare system since it assumed office last year. Dr Sy Pierre, president of

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May 04, 2018
Prime Minister Applauds Role of Dr. Dahl-Regis in Advances in Healthcare

Dr. Merceline Dahl-Regis became the first Bahamian to receive the prestigious Pan-American Health Organization?s ?Public Heath Hero Award of the Americas? at a PAHO award ceremony at Government House on Wednesday evening, May 2, 2018...

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April 13, 2018
NHI reform 39not a solution for all healthcare ills39

Minister of Health Dr Duane Sands warned yesterday reform of the National Health Insurance programme is not a solution for all the Bahamas' healthcare ills.Dr Sands was in Grand Bahama for the official launch at the Rand Memorial Hospital of a ctivit

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March 14, 2018
PHA using all avenues while preserving healthcare access

Minister of Health Dr. the Hon. Duane Sands said the Public Hospitals Authority (PHA) Board, appointed in June 2017, has been hard at work improving efficiencies of the PHA, embracing all opportunities to improve revenue collection, while preserving access for those who cannot afford care...

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March 13, 2018
The Healthcare System faced with aged Health Facilities

Minister of Health the Hon. Dr. Duane Sands said the country?s healthcare system is faced with aged health facilities that were built in the 1980s and have experienced significant natural disasters...

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March 12, 2018
Violence and injury running up the cost of healthcare

Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Duane Sands said there is a growing concern of violence and injury running up the cost of health care and crippling the country?s social systems...

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January 29, 2018
Public asked to seek non-emergency healthcare at community health clinics

Chief Hospital Administrator at the Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH), Mary Walker urges persons experiencing non-emergency medical symptoms to visit their nearest Public Health or Family Medicine Clinic...

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