HealthCaribbean Weekend
Edition 2021-03-04
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HealthCaribbean Weekend is a weekly #PHC #Health #Newsletter published on Thursdays which depicts current happenings in the #Caribbean #Healthcare Sector, of interest to healthcare providers, investors & suppliers.
Inoculating UK population before donating vaccines undermines country's claim to pandemic leadership, experts say
Experts worry the U.K. approach does not fit with global health ideals of equity when it comes to COVID-19 vaccine access.
G-7 vows ‘equitable’ world vaccine access, but details scant
LONDON (AP) Leaders of the Group of Seven economic powers promised Friday to immunise the world’s neediest people against the coronavirus by giving money, and precious vaccine doses, to a U.N.-backed vaccine distribution effort. But the leaders,...
CORNWALL CRISIS - Patients on oxygen clutter corridors as Gov’t launches COVID recruitment drive
WESTERN BUREAU: Patients are now forced to sit out their stay in the corridors at Cornwall Regional Hospital receiving oxygen – stark imagery of the scale of Jamaica’s coronavirus crisis which is choking public healthcare facilities. “We are in a...
CARICOM asks WHO to host meeting on COVID vaccine distribution
Geneva – The 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Thursday reiterated its call for the World Health Organisation (WHO) to host an international summit on distribution of the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine. Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, who is also chairman of the regional integration grouping, told a WHO news conference that he is also concerned about price gouging. “As there is the understandable rush to receive the vaccine and …
UWI professor: Vaccine jabs for 2 million J'cans good, but..
UNIVERSITY Professor Paul Brown says while the news that the Jamaican Government plans to...
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