A 16-year-old was taken to Broward Health Medical Center Friday morning after a fire erupted inside of a home in Fort Lauderdale, authorities confirmed.
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By Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org
Shane Strum, the governor’s chief of staff, will become chief executive of Broward Health later this month with a handcrafted three-year contract worth $1.3 million annually, despite having no hands-on experience running a hospital.
Broward Health’s seven-member board, hobbled by three long-unfilled seats, unanimously voted 4-0 to approve the Fort Lauderdale resident’s contract on Feb. 24 in what looked to be something of a rush toward the end of its regular meeting. Each of those commissioners was appointed by former Republican governor-now Sen. Rick Scott.
The deal’s political overtones are obvious, raising questions about whether the taxpayer-assisted North Broward Hospital District, as it is legally known, is backsliding toward the muck of political influence, corruption and scandal that it recently seemed to have moved past.
Despite her fear, Fleury pressed on.
“I see the situation that we are the same race-same person of color. We have to protect who we are. I feel like I see myself in that person, she added.
Dr. Ndubuisi Okafor tells NBC 6 that he also sees himself in his patients. He works in the intensive care unit at Broward Health.
“It was pretty intense. I’ve been in the ICU for 10 years. It’s a different thing all together for us, Okafor said.
There’s been aggressive steps forward in the fight against COVID-19. Michele Lewis serves as a senior medical technologist and has worked on developing new COVID diagnose procedure.