Tag: Minister of Health

Minister of Health the Hon. Renward Wells praised the corporate aid that Aliv is providing the Ministry of Health in augmenting its contact tracing surveillance efforts in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “As The Bahamas experiences COVID-19, what is evident is that we must all work together to achieve the desired endpoint of prevailing over this virus,” Minister Wells said during a press conference at the Ministry of Health, on Thursday, September 10, 2020.

A former health minister today decried the way those who lost their lives or deemed missing in Hurricane Dorian were identified, charging in the House of Assembly that it was not done “very well.” The official death toll in the aftermath of Dorian was pegged at 74. The actual death count and reconciliation of missing people is still unknown.

The Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the Commonwealth of The Bahamas His Excellency Huang Qinguo made a courtesy call on the Minister of Health, the Hon. Dr. Duane Sands at the Min. of Health on Meeting Street to discuss matters related to the 2019 Corona Virus in China on February 7th.

Governor General His Excellency Cornelius A. Smith paid his inaugural annual Christmas visit to Princess Margaret Hospital, Friday, where he visited patients...