The Cayman Islands Department of Planning has given approval to Health City Cayman Islands for the planned US$100 million medical campus and hospital expansion at Camana Bay. The aim is to reduce the number of local citizens traveling off island to receive care. The state-of-the-art Camana Bay medical campus will become the first hospital in the region to offer bone marrow transplantation … [Read more...]
Jamaica: COVID-19 worsens nursing brain drain
A local medical school official has charged that 85 per cent of Jamaica's trained nurses migrate after completing their training and the situation has been made worse by the novel coronavirus pandemic. Executive dean at Caribbean School of Medical Science, Jamaica (CSMSJ) Dr Neville Graham made the claim at the institution's first graduation ceremony recently, as he charged that the world is in … [Read more...]
The changing landscape of medical travel
Despite the impact of the pandemic on medical travel and tourism in general, it seems that the enthusiasm for announcing a new medical tourism initiative has not waned. New destinations are appearing and some developing, and established destinations are renewing their efforts to set out their stall for the prospective medical traveller. The pandemic has hit the medical travel sector hard. … [Read more...]
Cayman Islands Becomes First in the Caribbean to Offer Antibody COVID-19 Treatment
Health City Cayman Islands – a private health facility recently announced that it has acquired a supply of Ronapreve, a monoclonal antibody treatment that can help COVID-19 patients recover faster and avoid hospitalization, and death. This makes Health City the first private facility in the Caribbean to offer the ground-breaking treatment. Ronapreve has been jointly developed by … [Read more...]
More Than Half of Guyana’s Population Fully Vaccinated
The Guyana government on Monday said it has fully vaccinated more than half of the country’s adult population against the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic as the country registered more deaths and infections linked to the virus since March last year. The latest figures released showed that as of Monday, the Ministry of Health recorded 391, 521 adults, 18 years and older taking the first dose of … [Read more...]
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