The month of January is Cancer Registry awareness month.  The Cayman Islands Cancer Registry collects voluntary cancer patient information to help better compare the Cayman Islands to other Caribbean countries as well as on a worldwide scale.  It is important to collect data, as it can provide an accurate picture of the impact of cancer

All District Health Centres and the George Town General Practice clinic at the Cayman Islands Hospital will be closed for Christmas holidays on December 25th and 26th and on January 1st 2014 for the New Year. The District Health Centres will close at 3pm and the George Town General Practice at 4:30 pm on Christmas

Director of Primary Health Care, Dr Kiran Kumar is advising that the Health Services Authority has about 400 doses of the flu shots left out of the 3000 procured and no more will be obtained for this season. Vaccines will be offered on a first come first serve basis.  He is also reminding the public

Source: Caymanian Compass, by Brent Fuller, 3 December 2013 The Cayman Islands Hospital will be able to absorb the additional demand for obstetrical services once Cayman’s only privately owned hospital closes its maternity wing at the end of this month, according to Health Services Authority Chief Executive Officer Lizzette Yearwood. Chrissie Tomlinson Memorial Hospital owner

Cayman Heart Fund donates ECG machine to HSA The Cayman Heart Fund (CHF) recently donated a new Electrocardiogram (ECG) machine to the Cayman Islands Health Services Authority (HSA). The new state-of-the-art machine has an LCD screen which allows the physician to easily preview critical information on screen. Cayman Heart Fund Board of Directors presented this

Maternity Ward at HSA receives fetal monitors from Rotary Club The Cayman Islands Health Services Authority (HSA) Maternity Ward recently received a generous donation of two fetal heart monitors from the Rotary Club of Grand Cayman. Past and present Rotarians Eric Bush, Chris Bailey and Gregg Anderson presented these machines to the Maternity Unit. Mr

Queen of Soca, Alison Hinds, and other Barbadian Soca members visited the Paediatric Ward and Dialysis Unit at HSA on Thursday November 14th 2013. Fantastic Friday will be raising funds for the Cayman Islands Dialysis Unit Friday, Nov 15 at East End’s Pirate Week Heritage Day. View the photo gallery here

Staff, patients and the public were able to appreciate the much anticipated opening of the Cayman Islands Hospital’s brand new ultra-modern dialysis unit last week, which had been moved to make way for the impending arrival of a brand new 3T MRI machine, also state-of-the-art technology that will soon be greatly benefiting patients. The new

Vaccine for the seasonal flu will be available at the Cayman Islands Hospital, district health centres, Faith Hospital and Little Cayman clinic from Friday October 25th 2013. Director of Primary Health Care, Dr. Kiran Kumar says this year’s flu vaccine will also protect against the 2009 H1N1 pandemic flu. The flu vaccine will be available

The Cayman Islands Health Services Authority was proud to be a premium sponsor at the 2013 Cayman Islands Healthcare Conference at The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman October 17 – 19.   For more information about the conference, visit www.healthcareconference.ky