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Article by Social Share Minister of Health and Wellness, Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Bostic announced on Sunday that the upgraded Accident and Emergency Department (A&E) at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) will be opening in another three weeks. Speaking at the Barbados Labour Party’s Stan’ Home Political Mass Rally held virtually for the most part, he said that “the weekend of June 12” was the date set for the full reopening to the public, while he noted that construction had ended, and it was in the snagging stages now. “This is very important,” he said to applause from ...

Even as Barbados and the rest of the world are gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic, of no less importance is the crippling tide of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) seemingly on the sidelines.Oddly enough, COVID-19 has reinforced why NCDs – lifestyle diseases including high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, cancer, heart and kidney ailments are major threats.We have all the evidence that those with the viral illness are at greatest risk of being severely sickened and even dying as those living with NCDs.And just today, this point was again made as health officials confirmed that Barbados record...

May 11, 2021 A 35-year-old woman who claims to have been forced into quarantine with her two-year-old son was on Monday  expressing concern about the disappearance of COVID-19 test samples. Speaking to Barbados TODAY from quarantine, a frustrated Samantha Jordan said she was hoping the delay in the return of the results did not have anything to do with her standing her ground on refusing to have the nasal swab test administered to her and her son. The woman said she was unhappy with the way she was treated at the Accident and Emergency Department of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (Q...

Still trending in the right direction We do not have a problem at the two schools even though we have concerns. It is a family cluster that has spread into the two schools. Similar to what happened at Ellerslie School a few months ago. We have taken all of the public health measures and applied the same experience from Ellerslie to deal with this. Contact tracing started at Princess Margaret. Two teachers were tested, three more to be tested based on exposure to the positive case. Staff of Princess Margaret can be tested on Saturday. It is not an outbreak.

May 7, 2021 There is no outbreak of COVID-19 at the Princess Margaret Secondary School and no reason to panic. So says Minister of Health and Wellnes Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Bostic who this evening sought to quell fears that the respiratory illness was rampant at the St Philip institution as well as at the St George Primary School. During a nationally-televised press conference Chief Medical Officer, Dr Kenneth George confirmed that health authorities were investigating exposures at the two schools. He said while one student at Princess Margaret had tested positive, no positive c...