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Infectious disease specialist The Most Honourable Dr Corey Forde has complimented several doctors at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) for staying the course amidst challenging circumstances. Forde, who was honoured with a national recognition for his exemplary work at the Harrison Point Isolation Facility in St Lucy during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic post-2020, said it was important that the QEH be able to celebrate the hard work of …
Next year, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) will be celebrating its 60th year of existence, serving this country as the primary health institution for the population. The majority of Barbadians can attest to having some form of interaction with the Martindales Road, St Michael institution, either through access of health care service for themselves, relatives or close friends.Like any person or institution approaching such a milestone, there will be many memories, good and bad, accomplishments and low points. Even with the proliferation of privately operated health care facilities, the QEH s...
Four elderly people have been abandoned at the Harrison Point Isolation Facility in St Lucy by their families after going there for treatment for COVID-19 infections. This was revealed by Minister of People Empowerment and Elder Affairs Kirk Humphrey, as he responded to questions about welfare services and care of the elderly from his colleague and Member of Parliament for St
If more Barbadians considered the number of institutions and businesses who are in possession of detailed personal and sensitive information about us, they would take the matter of cyber-attacks more seriously.This week, we learned from officials of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), our primary health care institution, that it had been attacked by hackers, who succeeded in crippling some aspects of the hospital’s operations.If that was not bad enough, we later learned that the attack had also impacted operations of the Harrison Point Isolation Facility, which was established to care for th...
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) could be facing a lawsuit over its dismissal of Head of Security Ian McIntosh.McIntosh, who received his termination letter last Wednesday indicating he was being let go for underperformance, among other concerns, told Barbados TODAY his attorney was in the process of drafting a letter to the QEH objecting to its decision.“We will send an appeal to them and await their decision, and according to what their decision is we will move forward with a lawsuit,” he said.McIntosh is also being advised by the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW). Although confi...