July 11, 2021
In response to large COVID-19 spikes at a St Michael church and local business recently, Barbados’ Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Kenneth George, is urging all local establishments to immediately re-evaluate their COVID-19 protocols.
During a COVID-19 Update and Press Conference on Sunday, George said a church and local business registered 33 and 21 new COVID-19 cases respectively, over the last few days.
He said the Ministry of Health has been made aware of businesses being slack in their current protocols, with employers and employees seemingly ditching most protocols while they are out of the eye of the public.
“What we are noticing, is that when you go into businesses across Barbados, you get some businesses doing a temperature check, you get hand sanitizer. The worrisome part of these businesses is the operations that you do not see. We have good reason to believe those operations include how people mix and mingle within the business.
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Residents of St Andrew now have a newly-renovated and modernized outpatient clinic.
The facility, which was due for permanent closure, will allow residents to access community-based services in an enhanced atmosphere.
At today’s opening ceremony, Minister of Health and Wellness Lt Col Jeffrey Bostic said due to serious infrastructural issues that plagued the building in the past, his ministry made the decision to carry out a complete overhaul of the facility.
Bostic said: “This outpatient’s clinic is now moving into the digital age. We have outfitted this clinic with six computers. We have upgraded the telephone system. They have printers and everything in here so that we are now going to digitize the records and everything in relation to this outpatients’ clinic. You will be able to make appointments online because we now have the facility here to be able to do that and that would improve a lot of things for the clients who utilize the services.”