Persons ages 12 and over are now eligible for the Moderna (fall) booster vaccine against COVID-19 in the Cayman Islands. To be vaccinated, persons under 18 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian to any of the HSA’s scheduled clinics. Chief Medical Officer, Nick Gent stated, “The Moderna Bivalent COVID-Booster vaccine has been
Public Health Department has announced that effective 1st March 2023, confirmation PCR testing for positives will no longer be required and COVID testing centres will cease operations on all three islands. LFT positive online reporting will also no longer be required. We continue to recommend that cases and primary contacts of cases of Covid-19
The Public Health Department will be providing COVID-19 vaccination clinics for children ages 5 – 11 this Saturday, 14 January from 9 am -12 pm at the Public Health Clinic, Smith Road Medical Centre (2nd Floor). The clinics will be walk-ins, no appointments are required. It will accommodate children who did not receive the 2nd
Cayman Brac’s Public Health Clinic, formerly at Faith Hospital, will be relocating to the Medical Wing at the Aston Rutty Civic Centre starting January 4th 2023. “Faith Hospital has used the Aston Rutty Medical Wing location for many years,” stated Dr Srirangan Velusamy, Director of Sister Islands Health Services. “It became critical in 2020 when
As part of this year’s local World AIDS Day activities, the Health Services Authority and Public Health Department will commemorate World AIDS Day with a week of free HIV and STI testing Wednesday, 30th November – Thursday, 8th December 2022. Founded in 1988, World AIDS Day was the first ever global health day and is
The Public Health Department advises that it will be updating its approach to the surveillance of COVID-19 vaccination side effects for the Autumn Booster. Previously, captured through a physical form, Events Supposedly Attributed to Vaccination or Immunization (ESAVI) will now be captured electronically on the Cayman Islands Health Services Authority (HSA) website or the Ministry
(Ministry of Health) The Ministry of Health and Wellness and the Public Health Department at HSA would like to inform the public that a Moderna (bivalent) COVID-19 fall booster clinic will be held this Sunday, 16 October, for residents ages 70 and up and frontline health care workers. The clinic will run from 10am-3pm at
Public Health will be expanding the CayHealth programme to select clients insured under the Needs Assessment Unit (NAU) over the coming months. These individuals will receive a notice from Public Health advising they have been added to the programme, followed by further information regarding their primary physician assignment. Further information regarding this programme expansion will
(GIS – Ministry of Health and Wellness) New cases of human monkeypox have been found in several European countries, the United States, Canada and Australia. No cases have been detected in the Caribbean to date. Monkeypox is a viral infection usually associated with travel to West and Central Africa, where the virus is endemic. It is usually
The Public Health Department has announced that effective Thursday, 3 March 2022 hours of operation for the Truman Bodden Drive Thru Clinic will be 7am -10am daily for exit isolation and confirmation lateral flow PCR testing. The clinics at Ed Bush Sports Complex and Bodden Town Civic Centre will remain 1 – 3pm daily. The