Touched By An Angel Nursing Services - Barbados Barbados is suffering from the common dilemma throughout the region of nurses leaving the public health system for a variety of reasons, retirement, illness, frustration, career changes, and frequently for greener pastures and a host of other reasons. Unfortunately, those who are left behind are overworked due to manpower shortages resulting in “burn … [Read more...]
Bermuda to Legalize Medical Marijuana
A stampede is forming in the Caribbean with a number of islands rushing to legalize medical marijuana as predicted in a recent blog. Now Bermuda has announced that it will be joining the herd and its premier David Burt, has pledged that 'cannabis cultivation for medical reasons will be legalised within months in Bermuda'. The British colony follows behind Jamaica, Puerto Rico, St. Vincent, US … [Read more...]
New Children’s Hospital for Western Jamaica
The governments of Jamaica and China yesterday signed an agreement for the construction of a new US$ 36M Children's Hospital in Montego Bay, St James. The facility will be the second children's hospital to be built in the island with the first being the Bustamante Children's Hospital in Kingston built in 1963, and will be the first new hospital constructed in the island since the May Pen Hospital … [Read more...]
Forecasting Life Expectancy: 2016-2040
How healthy will the world be in 2040? If things continue as they are now, the answer is better off than we are today: Life expectancy will be, on average, 4.4 years higher for both women and men around the globe by 2040. That's according to a new report, published in the journal The Lancet. But public health choices and policy decisions that we make — or fail to make — now could set us down … [Read more...]
FOR SALE
Private hospital located in the English-speaking Caribbean. Ideal for medical tourism or off-shore medical school. Owners are retiring and want to recoup their investment. Price: US$30 M (negotiable) Includes: 4 acres land & all buildings Dedicated multi-specialty physician group (family practice, pediatrics, general surgery, radiology, internal med, cardiology, ortho, neuro, etc.) 30 … [Read more...]
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