Chatting with your doctor via video about your health issues works just as well as an in-person office visit, at least when it comes to managing chronic illnesses, a new review suggests. Replacing office visits with video checkups delivered results that were just as effective for patients being treated for conditions like diabetes, respiratory illnesses, chronic pain, heart problems and … [Read more...]
Caribbean Pandemic Review of 2021
The Caribbean is two years into the coronavirus pandemic and a lot has happened including the introduction of vaccines, new variants and hard-hitting policies to curb the spread of the virus. Here are some pandemic moments we pretty much will not forget that happened in the Caribbean in 2021: Confirmed COVID-19 cases crossed 2 million COVID-19 cases … [Read more...]
Coronavirus cases in the Caribbean to date: 2,266,904
Confirmed Caribbean coronavirus cases as of January 3, 2022: Cuba- 966,942 cases, 8324 deaths, 956,792 recoveredDominican Republic- 421,953 cases, 4249 deaths, 409,026 recoveriesPuerto Rico- 199,965 cases, 3310 deathsJamaica- 92, 177 cases, 2476 deaths, 65,813 recoveredTrinidad and … [Read more...]
Jamaica: Medical tourism and health technology
Jamaica and the rest of the Caribbean have a virtually untapped resource in medical tourism. Of course, there are places that offer this, but the extent to which we could be benefitting from such an industry is massive and not truly being exploited. We have focused a lot on health and wellness tourism. According to dobusinessjamaica.com in their ‘Health and Wellness Tourism’ report: “The Global … [Read more...]
WTO says Caribbean could be site for vaccine production
The Director general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said the Caribbean could serve as a production site for goods such as vaccines and that efforts are being made to get manufacturers to invest in the region. “We have to decentralise and we have asked the manufacturers to invest more in developing countries and emerging markets so that we can also produce,” she … [Read more...]
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