As the five-year-old Nurse Iris O’Neal Medical Centre on Virgin Gorda continues to struggle with infrastructure problems, a temporary “field hospital” is being deployed on its grounds to deal with …
October 23, 2025
July 30, 2025
EDITORIAL: Strategic plan a big step toward better healthcare
It is no secret that the Virgin Islands’ public healthcare system is struggling, with two community clinics shuttered and other facilities across the territory understaffed, under-equipped and under-resourced. This month, …
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July 7, 2025
BVIHSA hires consultant for salary review
At a time when healthcare facilities across the territory are facing staffing shortages, the BVI Health Services Authority has hired a consultant to undertake a comprehensive compensation review and job …
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June 24, 2025
Funds, staff low as clinics face struggles
The clinic in East End has closed its doors. Staff at the Anegada clinic recently fell ill because of poor working conditions. Major repairs at the main clinic on Virgin …
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June 13, 2025
‘This is a public health emergency’
The number of residents in need of dialysis could soon eclipse the territory’s ability to administer the treatment, BVI Health Services Authority CEO Dr. June Samuel warned Friday at the …
May 23, 2025
BVIHSA strategic plan coming next month
About 40 healthcare stakeholders gathered last Thursday to provide feedback for an upcoming strategic plan designed to inform the operations of the BVI Health Services Authority for the next five …
February 18, 2025
Health centres to get backup power
Six health centres in the territory will get a backup power supply thanks to a $250,000 grant sourced recently by the Ministry of Health and Social Development, according to government. …
February 14, 2025
Catching cancer early
For Humphry Leue, the Cancer Screening Project he helped launch last week is meaningful on a very personal level. “I myself was diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer about two years …
February 13, 2025
Hospital to get $4 million renovation
In front of about a dozen medical staff inside the Dr. D. Orlando Smith Hospital Monday afternoon, the BVI Health Services Authority signed a $4 million deal with the Recovery …
January 10, 2025
VI welcomes first babies of 2025
The first two babies of 2025 were born a minute apart last Thursday at the Dr. D. Orlando Smith Hospital in Road Town, according to the BVI Health Services Authority. …
October 28, 2024
In five years, NHI paid five providers $90m
On Friday in the House of Assembly, Health and Social Development Minister Vincent Wheatley disclosed the amounts the National Health Insurance programme paid to the top five local healthcare providers …
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October 7, 2024
Health workers trained for emergencies
The BVI Health Services Authority has partnered with a United Kingdom-based company to help standardise the quality of emergency-response training for healthcare workers in the Virgin Islands. The initiative, which …
October 3, 2024
Virgin Gorda keeps pushing for better healthcare
After weeks of voicing their frustrations online, an “ad hoc committee” of Virgin Gorda residents issued a press release last week detailing a litany of concerns about healthcare on the …
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September 19, 2024
Premier hopes Doughty visit will end threat of direct rule
A November visit by Britain’s new overseas territories minister will be a crunch moment in the ongoing effort to get London to lift its threat to impose temporary direct rule …
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September 12, 2024
Virgin Gorda health crisis sparks cries and demands
With emotion audible in her voice, Charlene Henderson spoke slowly in short sentences that commanded the room’s attention. “Bucky was dying. He could hardly breathe. He was breathing through his …
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April 11, 2024
Surgeries delayed by hospital AC outage
Elective surgeries were put on hold for at least 13 days at the Dr. D. Orlando Smith Hospital as uncomfortable heat plagued the facility because of an air-conditioning problem, according …
April 8, 2024
Two new ambulances added to Virgin Islands fleet
Two new ambulances have been added to the fleet operated by the BVI Health Services Authority, the agency announced Tuesday. One of the vehicles was funded by the Ministry of …
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March 24, 2023
Ex-health chair questions removal
Last year, the Commission of Inquiry blasted then-Premier Andrew Fahie for overstepping his authority and unlawfully revoking the membership of the Climate Change Trust Fund Board before the end of …
December 6, 2022
BVI Health Services Authority pledges to tackle staff concerns
With the worst of the pandemic in the rearview mirror, the BVI Health Services Authority announced on Nov. 24 that it is refocusing its efforts on bolstering non-emergency care and …
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November 14, 2022
Rotarians raise $45k for blood bank
With the help of its annual Grand Raffle, the Rotary Club of Tortola raised $45,000 for the purchase of equipment to expand the blood bank laboratory services at the BVI …
March 21, 2022
Woman hit by car in Road Town
A female pedestrian was hospitalised on March 11 after being hit by a car around 5 p.m. on Customs Road in Road Town, Police Information Officer Diane Drayton stated on …
February 11, 2022
BVIHSA denies ‘sickout’ reports
The BVI Health Services Authority denied reports of a nurse “sickout” when it released a statement on Sun- day saying there was no such protest. The BVIHSA said that it …
February 11, 2022
Premier blasted over BVIHSA letter
Three of the four opposition members — Opposition Leader Marlon Penn, Julian Fraser and Mitch Turnbull — held their first press conference of the year on Feb. 2. During the …
July 23, 2021
Government pushes vaccination drive as territory records 23 Covid-19 deaths
The Covid-19 outbreak in the Virgin Islands shows few signs of slowing down, with at least 19 people dead over the past nine days and health workers struggling to respond …
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September 24, 2020
Hospital gets accreditation
The Dr. Orlando Smith Hospital has achieved accreditation with the Norway-headquartered accrediting body DNV-GL, making it the first in the region to earn the status and one of three public …
