Brian Maclachlan News Today

Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health and Wellness, Wayne Marshall (left) chatting with PAHO/WHO Representative, Barbados and Eastern Caribbean, Dr. Amali ...

The Ministry of Health and the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) plan to roll out a new mental health policy. Speaking at the Caribbean Youth Mental Health Webinar yesterday, senior consultant psychiatrist at the Psychiatric Hospital and vice president of the Barbados Association of Psychiatrists, Dr Brian MacLachlan, said that more young people were coming forward to seek treatment for their mental health. “It’s clear, certainly in the last year …

No more cases of COVID-19 were discovered at the Ellerslie Secondary School. That news came earlier today from Minister of Health, Jeffrey Bostic, after he toured the country’s lone Psychiatric Hospital, as part of International Nurses Week. Speaking to the media after the tour, the minister revealed that aggressive contact tracing of primary and second contacts of the student who contracted the virus was ongoing, and he was glad to …

May 4, 2021 The outbreaks of COVID-19 at both the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) and the Psychiatric Hospital are under control, Minister of Health and Wellness Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Bostic declared Monday. He said the two clusters are being handled appropriately and that he was hopeful they would soon end. Last Friday, it was revealed that 15 of the 17 new COVID-19 cases involved patients and staff from the mental health institution and three other people tested positive Monday....