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A wake-up call: COVID-19 and its impact on children’s health and wellbeing

  [Reprinted: Lancet Global Health, 5-12-2020] As cases of COVID-19 surge worldwide and threaten to overwhelm life-saving health services, the survival of mothers and children is at great risk.  In The Lancet Global Health, Timothy Roberton and colleagues present startling new evidence on the potential rise in maternal and child mortality in low-income and middle-income countries if … [Read more...]

Caribbean-Health-IDB in digital platform project for Latin America and Caribbean

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Monday said it has joined with a number of firms including Microsoft, to provide governments in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) with immediate digital solutions helping to ensure the continuity of administrative procedures during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. It said that the Digi/Gob platform, which is also being developed with the … [Read more...]

MD Link brings telemedicine to the Caribbean

[Reprinted: Loop T&T News, 6/13/2020] In 2018, the Trinidadian doctor created a telemedicine platform that connected doctors with people who didn’t want to or could not leave home for medical services. Today, with the COVID-19 pandemic fast-tracking the development of digital solutions in the Caribbean, Dr Bowen’s platform, MD Link, is in demand. “When coronavirus came around we saw a … [Read more...]

‘Encouraging panorama’ to develop Puerto Rico’s medical tourism industry

[Reprinted: News Is My Business, 6-9-2020] The medical tourism industry in Puerto Rico has an opportunity for growth on the island, due to the worldwide spread of COVID-19, said Department of Economic Development and Commerce Secretary Manuel Laboy. “The emergency due to the spread of COVID-19 in the United States allows Puerto Rico to be an option for the practice of medical tourism,” he … [Read more...]

Virtual visits: Spurred on by the pandemic, telemedicine has gone mainstream

[Reprinted: Las Vegas Sun, 6-10-2020] As cities across the country began shutting down when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States, people still needed to receive advice and treatment from doctors for symptoms non-COVID-related. Physicians had to figure out another way to reach patients. Dr. Thomas Hunt, chair of family medicine at Henderson’s Roseman University of Health Sciences and … [Read more...]

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