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Woman awarded $9m for hospital negligence
The Supreme Court has awarded damages of more than $9 million to a woman for negligence in the removal of her womb at the Spanish Town Hospital almost nine years
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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Nigeria: Govt Pays N9 Billion Insurance Premium for Health Workers
Abuja — The federal government has paid a total of N9 billion to fourteen insurance companies as group life insurance premium for health workers that are engaged in the fight against the spread COVID-19 pandemic disease in
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Mkhize defends alcohol ban: 'Every bed, every healthcare worker, every ounce of oxygen is needed' | News24
The decision to reimpose the ban on the sale of liquor was evidence-based and meant to mitigate the strain on the health system during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Falmouth’s new artisan village to open soon – Bartlett
The new $700-million artisan village in Falmouth, Trelawny, which is poised to serve as a marquee tourist attraction in the resort town, is all but ready and Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett is hinting that it will be opened
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Sewage treatment plant at St Ann’s Bay hospital to be rehabilitated
Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Christopher Tufton, broke ground for the rehabilitation of the St. Ann’s Bay Hospital Sewage Treatment Plant on
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Three women killed, Rygin King hurt on bloody Sunday
MONTEGO BAY, St James — Popular hardcore dancehall artiste Rygin King was up to late yesterday evening in emergency surgery after he was one of three people shot — one fatally by unknown assailants in an incident in Westmoreland yesterday
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Gov’t orders 20,000 COVID antigen tests for hinterland - Stabroek News
Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony says 20,000  rapid antigen tests ordered for selective hinterland regions will increase the testing capacity in those areas. The article Gov’t orders 20,000 COVID antigen tests for hinterland appeared first on Stabroek News.
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ANC throws its weight behind Ramaphosa, applauds Cabinet for hard lockdown | News24
ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe said the party commended the efforts of Ramaphosa and his team in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Nigeria: Coronavirus - Nigeria Records 182 New Cases, Total Nears 9,000
Nigeria's tally of confirmed COVID-19 cases on Thursday rose to 8,915 as 182 new infections were announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control
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'Too high'
THERE were 700 new HIV cases diagnosed last year, setting off alarm bells for Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton, who yesterday raised concern that the number of newly infected people each year 'is too high'.The minister was speaking in the Lower House in recognition of World
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Gov. Walz announces more than half a million COVID-19 tests in MN
As State reaches milestone of 20,000 daily test capacity, Gov. Walz heralds partnership with Mayo Clinic and U of
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McKenzie pledges support for road in honour of late Milton Brown
If Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie has his way, then a road in the Mineral Heights division will be named after late former May Pen Mayor and councillor for the Mineral Heights division, Milton
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Just In: Kaizer Chiefs part ways with Coach Ernst Middendorp
After reviews conducted by Kaizer Chiefs chairman Kaizer Motaung, the club has decided to part ways with Middendorp with immediate effect.
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Moody's downgrades The Bahamas
In a statement, Moody's said the key drivers behind the rating action were the large shock caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis will weigh significantly on economic and fiscal strength over the medium term as well as the funding conditions will become more constrained for the Government
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Tourist pretesting back on agenda - Tufton admits island’s COVID-19 response buckling under pressure
WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaican Government is reconsidering the imposition of COVID-19 pretesting of arriving tourists as the coronavirus response architecture at the island’s airports has been overwhelmed by passenger traffic, Minister of Health and...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Nigeria: Madagascar's 'COVID-19' Drug Is Mainly Anti-Malaria - Health Minister
[Premium Times] Findings from the analysis of COVID Organics shows that it largely contains anti-malaria components, the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, said on Thursday.
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Campbell rakes JLP councillors for shoddy roads
Being in the unenviable position of having no councillors umbilically linked to his People’s National Party (PNP) operating inside the St Ann North West constituency, two-term Member of Parliament Dr Dayton Campbell has fired a salvo at the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) local government
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Calling all COVID-19 recovered patients
THE University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) has issued a call for individuals who have recovered from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) to be part of a pilot study aimed at finding ways to treat ill COVID-19 patients and reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with the disease.
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Archer: Lock down West Kingston
With reports that several cases of the novel coronavirus have been discovered in the West Kingston community, which neighbours the teeming downtown Kingston market district, one urban planner wants the area shut
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Women at Risk as COVID-19 Strikes State Prisons in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties | Black Voice News
Across California there are at minimum 436 incarcerated persons—men and women—confined and struggling to stay alive with active cases of
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Hospital reminds J'cans COVID-19 crisis ongoing
WHEREAS Jamaica has a population of 2.9 million and Miami-Dade in Florida, United States, has a population of 2.6 million, the latter has over 100,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases.Miami-Dade has over 100 times more active COVID-19 cases than Jamaica.In a recent release, Medical Associates Hospital
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Phillips wants legal assurances on 2-in-1 election
President of the People’s National Party (PNP), Dr Peter Phillips, is demanding assurances that the legal and technical issues involved in staging both the local government and general elections on one ballot be ironed out before concluding on what would be a historic
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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DR Congo declares end to Ebola in the east
Congolese Health Minister Eteni Longondo on Thursday officially proclaimed the end of the Ebola epidemic in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the second most serious since the discovery of the virus in
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Kenya: 17 in Mandera Discharged After Testing Negative for COVID-19
Seventeen out of the 18 Covid-19 patients in Mandera County have been discharged from hospital after testing negative even as the county flattened its
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Pompeo meets first couple - Stabroek News
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (left) greeting First Lady Arya Ali yesterday at State House. The article Pompeo meets first couple appeared first on Stabroek News.
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‘Coming home is like mi reach heaven’ - Kingston airport refining protocols
SINGING THE praises of airport staff and health officials after emerging from the arrival halls of the Norman Manley International Airport yesterday, Norma Kelly returned to Jamaica with a new lease on life and a sense of
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Bustamante hospital gets high dependency unit
The European Union (EU) today handed over the final of four maternal neonatal high dependency units to the Bustamante Hospital for Children, adding 10 specialised bed spaces to improve the institution’s capacity to treat sick...
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Senegal lifts coronavirus restrictions; land, sea borders still closed
Senegal is easing some restrictions that had been imposed to aid curb the spread of the Covid 19
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Famous Senegalese island Goree to rename its Europe Square in nod to George Floyd - Face2Face Africa
What was known as Europe Square at Senegals Goree Island will now be called the Freedom and Human Dignity Square, according to the islands tourism commission. The name change was inspired by the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota in May this year. The tourism commissions head, Doudou Dia called
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