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Ministry of Health Department of Public Health hours of Operation of Government Clinics in New Providence
Ministry of Health Department of Public Health hours of Operation of Government Clinics in New Providence
The Ministry of Health, Department of Public Health wishes to inform all of its employees that Clinical Services will continue until Friday 8th September, 2017 at 1pm...
Medical volunteers needed for 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games
The 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) in The Bahamas will feature about 1,300 athletes from the participating member countries of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF), which means that there will be a need for local medical officers to step forward and volunteer their services.
According to Dr. Ricky Davis, the lead doctor on the CYG team, over 200 volunteers would be required to accommodate ...
Statement from The Ministry of Health on Public Health Clinic Enrolment in National Health Insurance
Statement from The Ministry of Health on Public Health Clinic Enrolment in National Health Insurance
The Ministry of Health advises that the public health clinics in New Providence can be selected as primary care providers for NHI enrolment...
Improvemtns to Public Health Centres Accelerating Pubic Healthcare Transformation
Contract signings for a total of $800,000 of renovation works to the South Beach Clinic and the Flamingo Gardens Clinic were implemented in an official ceremony, March 21, 2017, at South Beach Clinic, by Minister for Grand Bahama...
The Bahamian Achilles heel
The Bahamian Achilles heel
Dear Editor,
Does anyone else find it funny (not in a "haha" way), that Bahamians who are outraged by our surging violent crime problem are also very likely the same Bahamians who don't support immigration reform?
It is hilarious to me that a nation which considers itself to be "Christian" can conveniently forget that the second greatest commandment given by Jesus Himself, per the book of Matthew ...
The NHI quagmire
The NHI quagmire
Dear Editor,
In July 2016, I told y'all that there is no way on Earth that NHI could be rolled out in 2016, despite all the political talk and empty promises, but y'all ain't listen. At the time, I also told y'all about my colleagues' taxpayer-funded vacation to South Africa in the name of fact finding for NHI. Jokes can't done!
Now I am back having had a look at my crystal ball within the NHI Se...
Ministry of Health National Immunization Protocol
Ministry of Health National Immunization Protocol
The Ministry of Health wishes to advise the general public that through an article in the daily Tribune dated 4th January 2017 entitled ?From a picture of health to death?s door for baby Aidan? an infant experienced what appeared to have been a severe illness after receipt of routine immunizations...
Communication by the Rt. Hon. Perry G. Christie on the National Health Insurance Bill
Mr. Speaker: The Government of The Bahamas is committed to the implementation of National Health Insurance so that every Bahamian has access to an improved quality of healthcare. Mr. Speaker, as the cost of health care continues to rise, we are not seeing a rising level of key indicators of health...
People 'can keep existing coverage under NHI'
People 'can keep existing coverage under NHI'
BAHAMIANS who are satisfied with their existing health insurance coverage won't be affected by the implementation of National Health Insurance although they may be able to renegotiate their private insurance plans in order to pay a lower price, Health Minister Dr Perry Gomez said yesterday.
NHI: 'Potent social initiative and instrument of change'
The Bahamas has made remarkable progress in improving the health of its people over the past 30 years, but those gains cannot be taken for granted, nor can the country become complacent in protecting those achievements.