WASHINGTON, DC – The director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Jarbas Barbosa has called for greater investment in public health in the Americas, including the Caribbean, to ensure health systems are better able to respond to the demands of a future emergency while maintaining essential services.

MIAMI, FL.  – When doctors in Antigua said eight-year-old Janelle Charles’ only option was to have both her legs amputated by the following week, it did not sit well with her mother, Thekla. That was six years ago. Thekla’s online research led them to Sheila Ann Conway, M.D., Chief of the Division of Orthopedic Oncology in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana’s first fully automated histopathology laboratory opened at the Dr. Balwant Singh’s Hospital here on Saturday. 

NASSAU, The Bahamas – Balancing the importance of maintaining healthy communities within a thriving tourism-based regional economy will take center stage at the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA)’s 67th annual Health Research Conference here later this month.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Starting next month, the Ministry of Health will be rolling out a registered nursing program aimed at training 1,000 people annually and upon successful completion, persons are being guaranteed a job within the health sector.

CAYMAN ISLANDS – Health City Cayman Islands is offering a cutting-edge solution for patients with slow heartbeats. The facility has the capability to insert leadless pacemakers, which transmit electrical pulses to the heart without insulated wires.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – Health authorities are urging technical and financial partners to secure funding to support the activities of the National Blood Safety Programme (PNST) amid concerns for the need to increase the production of safe blood in Haiti.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) called on countries in the region to urgently expand access to prevention, detection and treatment services to accelerate progress towards ending tuberculosis (TB), one of the mostly deadly infectious diseases in the world.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – The St. Kitts-Nevis government says it will introduce universal health insurance and a new smart hospital to the twin island Federation as part of the efforts to transform the country’s health system.

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada – Health authorities in Grenada have confirmed an outbreak of gastroenteritis and acute respiratory infections.

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA - Broward Health celebrated the opening of its advanced robotic electrophysiology lab to treat heart rhythm disorders with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and tours of the lab and other cardiac areas. Located at Broward Health Medical Center, the lab is the fifth in the nation and the first in Florida to be equipped with the latest robotic technology for cardiac ablation procedures using the Genesis Robotic Magnetic Navigation system by Stereotaxis.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – In a quest to access lifesaving vaccines without relying on supplies from developed countries, the Government of Guyana has reached out the nations of Rwanda and India to strengthen its healthcare services and potentially, manufacture vaccines in the Caribbean.