The New Year’s Eve Purple Ribbon Bus will be running tonight from 9pm – 4am and we are happy to be a sponsor in an effort to keep everyone safe. Please take advantage of this free service – don’t drink and drive. Click here to read the article and for more information.
Every holiday season the Health Services Authority has a contest called Deck the Halls. Different departments and district clinics participate to see who can decorate their department the best….and each year it gets better and better. 2014 Deck the Halls Overall Criteria: · Creativity · Teamwork · Visual appeal · Originality · Variety · Safety
The main Dental Clinic at the Cayman Islands Hospital campus will be closed for maintenance on December 29 – January 1 and will reopen on Friday 2 January 2015. The Cayman Islands Health Services Authority will have emergency dental clinics available during this time at the Merren Dental Clinic and the West Bay Health Centre
FLU SHOTS AVAILABLE Director of Primary Health Care, Dr. Kiran Kumar is reminding the public that those persons who did not get the flu shot should do so before the peak of the flu season which ranges between December and January. The Public Health Department has a few hundred doses of the flu shots remaining
HSA offering the ‘gold standard’ for endovascular repair The repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm is a difficult procedure normally only offered in centres with large populations; such as the United States and the United Kingdom however Dr Robin Windhaber, a surgeon at the Cayman Islands Health Services Authority (HSA), has recently successfully performed the
All District Health Centres and the George Town General Practice clinic at the Cayman Islands Hospital will be closed for Christmas holidays on Thursday December 25th and Friday 26th and on Thursday January 1st 2014 for the New Year. On Christmas Eve (24th of December) and New Year Eve (31st of December) the clinic hours
Chikungunya/Dengue Update as of 8 December 2014 Chikungunya update: During the week of 2 December – 8 December 2014 the Cayman Islands received 10 results for pending samples from the Caribbean Public Health Agency. Six were negative and four positive where the newest cases are: Bodden Town – two, George Town – one, West
Having participated in a new smoking cessation programme run by the Cayman Islands Health Services Authority’s (HSA) Public Health Department, fifty percent of those participants who completed the course managed to kick the habit, an impressive statistic which has spurred organisers on to preparing a second similar programme for February 2015. Called ‘I Can Quit’,
With a new partnership in place with the Cayman Islands Health Services Authority (HSA) and Cayman HospiceCare (CHC), palliative care services are now offered in the Sister Islands. Cayman HospiceCare is a community service that provides quality comfort care to anyone who has cancer or any other end-stage terminal illnesses at no charge to patients
Getting to Zero World AIDS Day – 1 December 2014 The Public Health Department, the Cayman AIDS Foundation and the Cayman Islands Red Cross have partnered to organize five days of free HIV/AIDS testing from 1-5 December, as part of its World AIDS Day Observance. Officials promise testing will be speedy and confidential. No appointment